> > David Goldstein wrote
> > And no matter what legislation there is in Australia, all Australia
> > can do is report the finding of child pornography on foreign servers
> > to the relevant authorities (and filters) and let them act on it if
> > they can or want to.
Hrm. It took me a couple of readings of this before I realised what's bugging
me. Since when did manufacturers of filtering software become as trustworthy
as the police? In particular, why are admins looking after their own internal
networks with filtering software they manage themselves (ie. squid blocking
lists etc) not trustworthy, but filtering manufacturers are? Why is the Australian
govt bending over backward to help filtering companies, but not willing to help
it's own citizens in blocking things themselves?
There's a creeping judgement here that filtering companies are somehow worthy
institutions - anyone thought to check the home PC's of individuals working in
such places? Harsh, I know, but why do we believe that they're entitled to
see so much, yet the rest of us poor saps trying to manage our networks on a
shoestring are not even allowed to know what the ABA's judged illegal to view?
Australian Govt - enabling corporate products for a better tomorrow. Puh-lease.
KevinL
-- Internet techie Obsidian Consulting Group Specialising in proxy servers and traffic measuring/billing. http://www.obsidian.com.au/ darius@obsidian.com.au
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