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This has to be one of the most ludicrous 'policies' I've read lately. The only thing this policy does is portray Australia as simply 'The Global Village Idiot'.
"Beazley said all households would be included in the policy unless there was a specific request for access to such material."
This would be a great way to create an undesirable persons list.
Easier said than done.
Of course we'd all like to guarantee security for our children when surfing the internet, however applying law or political policies is not going to achieve it.
It really needs to be done via another method(s) - maybe technology and classification, which is also no easy road as there are no global agreements in place.
Even if we reached a state where every region agreed on classification and domain types for adult content, there would still be people on the web who abuse it.
That's the way it is.
Implementing technology to block or shutdown adult related site access would be a never ending task and most likely not achieve the desired result.
Take spam for example, most corporates in most countries are still battling unsolicited mail.
Let's get that sorted first... because that's where the real cost for business is being consumed on a daily basis.
Typically heavy handed sensationist tripe produced by people who don’t understand what they are dealing with - or ones who were poorly advised.
Why not just ensure that each ISP provides such a service – call it a family friendly filter plan. Either the government may subsidise it or it may be provided at a slight premium depending on the economics of it. But one may argue against why the customers with no kids should subsidise the ones with. Untimely people will vote with their feet (and wallets). Parents may then simply choose to have a filtered stream or an unfiltered stream - thus removing any need for technical skills whilst not interfering with the rest of us who don't have a problem with the current system. That way everyone may be happy, and no one need specifically 'request' access to the naughty stuff.
Typically heavy handed sensationist tripe produced by people who don’t understand what they are dealing with - or ones who were poorly advised.
Why not just ensure that each ISP provides such a service – call it a family friendly filter plan. Either the government may subsidise it or it may be provided at a slight premium depending on the economics of it. But one may argue against why the customers with no kids should subsidise the ones with. Untimely people will vote with their feet (and wallets). Parents may then simply choose to have a filtered stream or an unfiltered stream - thus removing any need for technical skills whilst not interfering with the rest of us who don't have a problem with the current system. That way everyone may be happy, and no one need specifically 'request' access to the naughty stuff.
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you people are so irrelevant in the labour party that you keep coming up with airy fairy policies like the one mentioned. as a matter of fact i think you are a spent force in politics in this country, just like the bloody unions i keep giving exorbident funds to. i think Beasley, and all the rest of you nonperformers in the labour party should go find a tree, and give it a big hug.