If RC content must be filtered, users should be involved, says ISOC-AU

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 16:45

IT Policy - Regulation

The Internet Society of Australia has called for Internet user involvement in any process to determine and review what 'refused classification' content gets filtered by the Government's proposed mandatory ISP-based filtering system.

ISOC-AU has made the suggestion in its submission to the Government's December 2009 consultation paper, Mandatory internet service provider (ISP) filtering: "Measures to increase accountability and transparency for Refused Classification material."

That consultation paper proposed that mandatory filtering be applied to externally sourced lists of child abuse sites, the ACMA black list and any content that would be refused classification in Australia about which ACMA has received a customer complaint.

While ISOC-AU remains totally opposed to mandatory filtering of any kind, its submission acknowledges that this is now government policy and concentrates on how, not whether, a list of RC content might be compiled and reviewed.

The discussion paper lists six options designed to increase the accountability and transparency for the development of material put onto the RC content list.


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