Australia plans to filter harmful information from the Internet
According to the Australian government last month, a plan that place a mandatory filter on the Web to shield children in particular from accessing illegal and inappropriate material will begin this month.
Actually the plan of a filter system which aims to filter harmful information from the Internet met the opposition of Internet user groups, the pornography industry and others. Because they thought some legitimate websites would be blocked and Internet speeds be slowed down after the enforcement of the measure.
Such plan would be a technical failure amid criticism. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government has been aware of the series of problems about the plan.
“And that is why we are conducting a pilot to put these claims to the test,” he said in a statement.
The trial, which will begin from mid-January, would be conducted by several Internet service providers and provide evidence on the impact of content filtering.
Internet users lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia said the trial would let the government down.
Spokesman Colin Jacobs also said that it’s impossible to pursue the child-safe clean feed in a highly accurate way. Trying will make the Internet slow.
Jacobs was interested in the secret blacklist of banned websites being introduced by the government.
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