Australia abandons bid to block ?objectionable? internet sites after outcry by free speech campaigne
 

The Australian government has abandoned its five-year pledge to introduce a compulsory filter blocking child pornography and other objectionable internet content.

Instead, internet service providers have agreed to block 1,400 child abuse websites on Interpol's 'worst of' list, said Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.

Three of Australia's largest telecommunications companies - Telstra, Optus and Primus - have been blocking the listed sites anyway since 2010.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...net-sites.html

In other words the Internet companies saw that they would loose between 40% to 65% of their estimated revenus and decided to pay off some politiciens to keep it from becoming a law.

There is a lot more on a banned list, we are not allowed to talk about

They obviously didn't see DVTs sites then...

The original law was pathetic - it blocked suicide information websites as well as a whole bunch of other random stuff. It wasn't just tailored towards kiddy porn.


Dave

Instead of some ISPs blocking the sites, why doesn't Interpol shut the fucking things down?