The Australian government is about to spent $44,000,000 on research on and and implementation of two internet filters. One filter is to protect children from 'bad' content and the other one is to protect all of the Australian population from 'bad' content.
Parents can opt-out of the kiddie filter but the other filter will be mandatory allowing the government of the day (which can become left-wing, right-wing, too religious, too liberal, too dumb or too anything else) to put any site they classify as 'bad' on a black list that will be kept secret.
The (automatic) filter will do the following:
- Slow down internet traffic by 30-80%
- Put misjudged sites on the black list and no one knows how to get them off again
- Decide for YOU and your children what you can or can not see
In a time where the Australian government seems committed to improve Australia's poor internet capabilities of today, these measures do not fit as they will throw us back in to the internet dark ages.
The $44,00,000 dollars could better be spend on education about the internet to parents and improvements to the network.
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We welcome Australia in the ranks of enlightend nations such as China, Cuba, North Korea, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. They all have set up filters that don't work if you know what to do. See here for more information to get around censorship.
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