slayerking reports to us that an Australian Christian political party called "Family First" wants Australian Internet users to pay an annual levy to block pornographic and offensive content. The levy would be around $ 7AUD to $ 10AUD (USD$ 5 to USD$ 7), enough to block offensive content at server level.
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The party wants the internet filtered at server level, warning that children exposed to online pornography could exhibit "disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour". The current system of optional filtering had a poor take-up rate, the party said. "As a society, we have acknowledged the need to regulate other media and prevent porn peddlers from accessing children and adolescents," the Family First policy reads. "Why is the internet industry allowed to avoid responsibilities on this?" Family First admitted the cost of the filtering scheme could be prohibitive for small ISPs, but said the scheme should proceed regardless. "This may have the result of putting cost pressures on some of the smaller ISPs, but there are arguably too many of these at the moment, and adequate competition could be maintained with 30 ISPs rather than the hundreds in existence now," it said. "This cost is a small price to pay to protect children." |
Although there is nothing wrong with protecting children from accessing pornographic material I think a complete censorship is going way too far. Or as slayerking sums it up: "Like bloody hell!!!" What do you think about this? Feel free to react below!
Source: News.com
