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Telecommunications $129m to keep Australian children safe from cyberporn
Telecommunications $129m to keep Australian children safe from cyberporn | $129m to keep Australian children safe from cyberporn |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 14 May 2008 | |
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The Budget has allocated $49 million to "ensuring that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Child Protection Operations Team can expand its capacity to detect and investigate online child abuse." This will pay for an 91 additional AFP members dedicated to online child protection by 2011. According to the Government, the funding will "allow the AFP to establish a victim identification and support capacity, to aid in the recovery of child abuse victims nationally and internationally...[and will] provide for the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to handle prosecutions and related activities arising from the increased investigations of online predators flowing through from the AFP's investigations." The government says that "the introduction of ISP level filtering of material such as child pornography," is central to its plan to make the internet a safer place for children. However there has been speculation that filtering would be extended to a much larger and vaguer category of "inappropriate" material The government also claims that its ISP filtering policy "is being developed through an informed and considered approach, including a laboratory trial, extensive industry consultation, and close examination of overseas models to assess their suitability for Australia." Communications minister Stephen Conroy said that "ISPs in a number of European and other countries are already filtering child abuse material. While there may be technical and cost hurdles, the message from other countries is that these can be overcome." This is not entirely true. Attempts by the Finnish Government to introduce mandatory ISP filtering have been hugely controversial CONTINUED |
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