Australian Government May Try Net Filtering
It looks like the nation-wide internet filtering plan announced by the Australian Labor Party earlier this week might actually get somewhere. There's a push for a similar plan by a bunch of Liberal backbenchers (members of the party in power, but who are not part of the Ministry), led by Tasmanian Senator Guy Barnett. It seems Mr. Barnett has rounded up 61 of his colleagues and got them to sign a "plea" to Prime Minister John Howard asking for more action from the government to combat online porn and violence.
I try not to get too political here at FreeCashSpace, but I really think this whole thing is a bad idea. It might help a few politicians improve their "family-friendly" image, but it's not going to do much of anything to protect Australian children. Neither will his plans to "halve overweight and obesity in children by 2015."
From what I can tell, Mr. Barnett is one of those politicians who doesn't know anything about good policy, but knows when to jump on a bandwagon to improve his image and increase his support. It's bad enough when politicians start screwing around with internet regulation for their own selfish purposes, but it really makes me ill when they play the "it's for the good of the children" card. A number of reports have been released saying that filtering at ISPs won't solve the problem. Why do governments pay for these "expert opinions" if they're not going to listen to them ?
I try not to get too political here at FreeCashSpace, but I really think this whole thing is a bad idea. It might help a few politicians improve their "family-friendly" image, but it's not going to do much of anything to protect Australian children. Neither will his plans to "halve overweight and obesity in children by 2015."
From what I can tell, Mr. Barnett is one of those politicians who doesn't know anything about good policy, but knows when to jump on a bandwagon to improve his image and increase his support. It's bad enough when politicians start screwing around with internet regulation for their own selfish purposes, but it really makes me ill when they play the "it's for the good of the children" card. A number of reports have been released saying that filtering at ISPs won't solve the problem. Why do governments pay for these "expert opinions" if they're not going to listen to them ?
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