In Australia, there is a feeling of mixed emotions this week that the government has decided to abandon plans ON- were going for the past five years to block and filter pornography concerning children on the web. Similar content was believed to have been blocked too, but they declined and changed their minds.
Minister who is in charge of communication of Australia Stephen Conroy said that rather than putting a filter is needed on the web they contacted Internet service providers to block more than 1,400 child pornography sites. These are the sites that are on a list provided by Interpol. Three large companies Optus, Primus and Telstea have been blocking these sites, both questioned whether the government's decision is really such a radical measure to stop child molesters access pornography when the major Internet service providers have already blocked.
M .. Conroy was quoted as saying that they have reached an agreement with Internet service providers to try to block child pornography. Many critics of his new action said the filtering law of the sites have Australia in the same category as China. The United States has also challenged the law, saying it would put some countries with freedom far behind. But again, is the access to this type of material liberty or a pure supplication? It is a very controversial issue.
The new idea that has been implemented has a very limited approach to child abuse and country filter nationally supposed scale. So that the old idea would be to regularly update the sites that were listed in the ban. He also blocked sites terrorism, all that was related to crime and drug abuse and all that was considered too violent. Many said it would block sites which are not of any damage, it would be the slowest Internet. It is also believed to compromise freedom of speech, bringing closer to that of China, where users already regularly use VPN services for the majority of Internet browsing in Internet censorship in Australia.
It is believed that the new prohibitions will not have a serious impact on the Internet in Australia, and many believe that older plans were much better. The head of the Internet industry, Peter Lee said he is actually very happy with the decision and very happy that the focus will be only to abuse and child pornography.
The government fell short in their commitment to the use of the Internet in 07 and overall decision not to implement the new legislation is disappointing, said Jim Wallace. There is of course a great view of mixed opinions, those for and of course those who are against. It is believed that the overall decision is based on the idea that to get this passed in parliament would be almost impossible and against the people's freedom. It is a sad state of affairs when a government back on their promise, but when people seem to think that child pornography should be accessible. So who knows what the future has in store for the Internet in Australia and other countries over time changing.
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