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Australian web filter to block 10,000 internet sites (news.com.au)
6 points by gibsonf1 on Nov 13, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Under the current mandate that includes adult material, which would mean most material that could be rated R and, in some circumstances, material rated MA15+."

Yeah, good luck with that. So, if I drop the F-word in this thread, it has to be filtered? I'm sure that will work. No one ever swears on the internet. While I'm not silly enough to claim that half the internet is porn or something, there's plenty of R-level content. Especially with comment systems, that system would get useless fast.

Well, if there's one person who will win out of this, it's Senator Ted Stevens. His series of pneumatic tubes looks pretty good right now, doesn't it? ;-)


You are right of course. This is an incredibly misconceived scheme that will fail to meet it's policy objectives.

The main focus of action against the scheme appears to be this web site: http://www.nocleanfeed.com/




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