Aussie porn filters effective - NOT

[tickler]

A 16 year old MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in just a matter of minutes.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...08-910,00.html

[nekrom]

You'd have to be a dead set muppet if you thought it was going to work.

-N

[HarryM]

Now they're talking about ISP level filtering, I don't like the idea of that. What we really need is a stupid parent filter at store level, and maybe a John Howard filter for TV and radio.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by HarryMuff

Now they're talking about ISP level filtering, I don't like the idea of that. What we really need is a stupid parent filter at store level, and maybe a John Howard filter for TV and radio.

I thought Australia had fairly draconian anti porn laws already, sort of like the UK in the 1980s/early 1990s (or like America in a few years time). Am I wrong?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by nekrom

You'd have to be a dead set muppet if you thought it was going to work.

Yeah, but most politicians ARE "dead set muppets".

[Lisa]

Originally Posted by ecchi

I thought Australia had fairly draconian anti porn laws already, sort of like the UK in the 1980s/early 1990s (or like America in a few years time). Am I wrong?

We have fairly strong/strict laws with regards to hosting of pornographic material, but even when they introduced those laws it was a joke because our tortoise-like bandwidth speeds meant hardly anyone was hosting here anyway.

We've always been able to watch whatever we wanted tho...

In terms of videos/dvd's, it's illegal to sell x-rated material in all states, however it's legal in the ACT and Northern Territory...so they do a roaring (and legal) mail order trade.