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Telecommunications ACMA to test ISP-based content filtering | ACMA to test ISP-based content filtering |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 26 June 2007 | |
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Coonan announced in June 2006 that the Government would provide every Australian family with a free Internet filter as part of a $116.6 million "comprehensive package of measures to crack down on the scourge of Internet pornography." She added that "In an effort to ensure that we are using the most effective means at our disposal to crack down on offensive and inappropriate material on the Internet, ACMA will undertake a further trial of ISP based filtering in Tasmania." Mandatory ISP filtering was proposed by the ALP in March 2006 with then leader, Kim Beazley, claiming "The reality is that cost and poor computer literacy mean almost two-thirds of parents don't have Internet filters on their family computers." Coonan rejected that proposal saying that: ISP based filtering would "only result in slowing down the Internet for every Australian without effectively protecting children from inappropriate and offensive content." However she did not elaborate on why it would be ineffective. Coonan claimed that: "PC-based filtering remains the most effective way of protecting children from offensive Internet content, as well as other threats that are not addressed by Labor's ISP-filtering proposals. PC-based filters are more effective at blocking all manner of offensive content, provide greater control to parents of the content their children are exposed to and do not affect the performance of the Internet for all users." The ACMA's requires the successful bidder to set up a test environment and: - report on the effectiveness of content filtering products at the ISP level in blocking illegal and inappropriate content; - determine whether the operation of content filtering products at the ISP level will introduce delays into an ISP's network; - provide an analysis of the features presently available in content filtering products at the ISP level; and - report on what capabilities current products have in regards to filtering non web-based content.{moscomment}
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