myusernam said...
bring on the filtering I say...
The asian countries can have the gaming industry - why compete with the huge bunch of game nerds to the north when our kids should be in the great outdoors. they dont have an outdoors, just a tiny apartment and an internet connection= What about the online porn industry? It's worth lots too. Some industries aren't worth worrying about.
I shudder to think what would happen if my kids saw some of the crap I've seen on the internet....
Proxy sites and you can get around it sure but it's designed to save the innocent, not the savvy who are intent on viewing.
It's simply too easy to google something and get the wrong result. e.g. case donovan big fat chick on australian idol. Idol presenters told the (predominatly adolescent audience) to go to www.caseydonovan.com and neglected to ad the .au. caseydonovan.com.au is just fine....but caseydonovan.com belongs to casey donovan the US gay pornstar who does all sorts of stuff to his bunghole. Thousands of teenagers visited the gay porn site!
Plenty of other inadvertant searches end up in filth...just try googling BBC (used to be short for british broadcasting corporation) before the internet! or go looking for a nice creampie recipie and see what you end up with. not to mention the bme pain olympics, mr hands, 2guys1cup etc. no one needs to see that stuff.
Never before has porn been so accessable....I wonder if it will lead to an increase in social issues. previously to access this sort of material you had to go and find and pay for it, and acess was restricted by convenience and cost. Now you can access new stuff every night. The NT has already restricted not only alchohol but also pornogrophy in it's aboriginal communities due to social issues.
This is why it will happen... Conroy and Krudd and cronies rely on people like yourself who just simply don't understand how and why it (doesn't) works... Yes, people can get around anything, and this 'solution' is very easy to subvert. Thats not the point tho....
It is not there to rid the net of p0rn, it's a black list of things that our overlords deem 'bad'. There is no transparency, and no (easy) way of telling what they are going to ban. In the trail, an anti-abortion website, a qld dentist website, and legal soft-pr0n were caught up in the black list - how???? - It's an amazing liberty with our liberties....
Free speech issues aside, this 'solution' simply misses the problems...
Firstly, 'bad' content is not downloaded through websites - P2P technologies are way more efficient.
Secondly, it encourages people to move to fully encrypted and distributed connections, making it very hard to catch those who download, sell and re-distribute the bad stuff (child pr0n).
Thirdly, as mentioned in my previous post... Your ISP is due to be responsible for what you download.... Those consequences are massive
Fourthly, the filter is based on yesterday's technologies. Contemporary and research level technologies (for tomorrow) make the filtering even less capable of working. Which is going to take priority in new projects such as the NBN? - Filtering or implementing new technologies?
In someways, we should be grateful that our master and moral overlord Conroy is so useless at his job, because in 5 years time the filter will be irrelevant through either general use of proxies or outdated technologies....
The only people who will be affected by this filter will be those who only use the Internet for email and a small amount of surfing their family pictures. But then, these are the types of people who will only every use Telstra for everything because they are too lazy/stupid to understand the technologies they are using, so they deserve it...
