, 2009-02-13
The Australian government is considering requiring that Internet service providers in that country install filters which would prevent citizens from accessing tens of thousands of sites that contain "objectionable" material.
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http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/1001/pc=PC_90156#prohib
As you can see, it includes X18+ which most of us know as regular legal for adults to view porn. There are millions of URLS on the net that match this criteria and the Government is proposing to attempt to block them all. But actual child porn URLs amount to a few hundred URLs. So in an effort to sanitise the web down to the same standard as TV, they are creating a monster so bloated it will actually fail to achieve its most widely stated purpose - blocking child porn.
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