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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
To Clean Feed, Or Not To Clean Feed
I have been reading up on this 'Clean Feed' business, and found that so far, I am torn about the whole idea. It is a very good thing that the Australian Government are trying to implement ways to protect children from some of the horrors floating around on the internet. This just seems like a very extreme way to do it. And it seems suspiciously on the down low. I can't seem to find any information on things like who will decide which sites are blacklisted. I mean, obviously illegal things will be, but there is the freedom of speech concern. And I'm sure I'm not the only one to come across a funny named site, that doesn't actually have anything to do with it's content. How many of these will be blacklisted accidentally? What about blogs? And is that someones job? To find illegal and inappropriate sites to filter? Like terrorists sites and child pornography? Would that not make someone want to kill themselves? And if this really is a technique to protect kids from laying innocent eyes on something they shouldn't, why is the filter being placed in homes without children? It all seems a little dodge. Plus, I get frustrated with slow internet as is. Apparently, this filter will only make it slower. I see a rise of computer abuse in my future. Not to mention, how much is this going to cost? Surely there is an easy way to do this, without spending millions of tax payers money when it should be spent on better things like the health care system? Those road works in surfers have been going for months now, surely another million dollars would move that along quite nicely. So in conclusion, still torn. It will be interesting to see what happens when it goes ahead though. Another Vegemite 'iSnack 2.0' scenario perhaps?
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