Something came to my attention in my random internet musings tonight, which is the governments new clean feed policy to stop pedophiles (oh no) from accessing questionable content on the net. Oh and the children. Of course one would think that providing a filter program which the government wasted 84 million dollers on last year would be enough. But no, family first want more. So now we have a Mandatory Filter plan being installed.
While information has been incredibly scarce (read: people hiding it) there has been a few leaks as to how it would work. Of course one would assume that they would offer people to be able to opt out of the system right?
‘The Government’s plan is for there to be two blacklists, one for “unsuitable for children,” and another one for “unsuitable for adults.”
The much-touted “opt-out” would merely involve switching from blacklist number 1 to blacklist number 2.
Under their current proposal, there’s no scope at all to switch to no blacklist at all. Regardless of your personal preference, your traffic will pass through the censorship box.’
So we now have a tiered internet system coming our way. One way where you can protect “The Children” and the other one where the government tells every adult here what we can view and what we cant. Seems like this country is moving closer to China everyday, not only in Chinese speaking politicians but in ideology as well. May as well throw Network Neutrality out the window as well, clearly is doesn’t apply when terrorists and pedophiles are involved.
The ignorance of Australian politicians when it comes to technology is beggining to astound me. Not only from this but the outright banning of games which arn’t appropriate for people for the age of 15 to “protect” us because some old fart in South Australia wont pass an R18+ guideline really makes you wonder if maybe, its best to go overseas to pursue your career instead in this technological backwater.
Good to be living in a Nanny state.
Everyone should read up on http://nocleanfeed.com and write to their local member about it, as the implications of this passing is bigger than people just losing access to porn.
