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Written by iGWN Kalgoorlie   
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 09:48

Julia Gillard isn't budging on dropping the unpopular internet filter, saying it's a moral judgment the Government needs to make.

The Coalition and the Greens are unlikely to support proposed new laws that will see inappropriate content filters through internet service providers.

But Prime Minister Julia Gillard remains defiant: "The internet filter is appropriate".

"It is unlawful for me to go to the cinema and watch some certain sorts of content, that's unlawful, we believe it to be wrong," she told the Queensland Media Club on Tuesday.

"Content that is child abuse, incredibly violent pornography, we say that is wrong and we don't show it in Australian cinemas.

"If we accept that, then it seems to me the moral question is not changed by the medium that the image has come through."

She says the Government is working through how the internet filter could be introduced without slowing down connection speed or accidentally banning content that is appropriate.

Under the plan, all Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Australia would be required to use a filter to block sites that are refused classification by the The Australian Communications and Media Authority.

These include child sexual abuse imagery, bestiality, sexual violence, detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use and material that advocates the doing of a terrorist act.

Source: iGWN Kalgoorlie

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Alan   |123.211.175.xxx |2010-10-19 08:54:07
If Gillard wants the internet to have classificati ons the same as magazines or
film/T.V. in Australi a, first there should be a National Classification across
all states, so they are all the same.
Othe rwise (for example) we are going to
have content a llowed in VIC that won't be allowed in QLD.
Alan   |123.211.175.xxx |2010-10-19 08:54:26

Take Picture Premium magazine for instance. QLD g et the edited/airbrushed vers
ion on their shelves in newsagents, whilst VIC have the unedited/more e xplicit
version on their newsagents shelves.
Does that mean websites allowed in VIC wi
ll be banned i n QLD????
Alan   |123.211.175.xxx |2010-10-19 08:56:37
Also, if Gillard wants to classify the internet as we do with other forms of me
dia, why not classify video games the same way and add an R18+ rating t o games
....?
bignick88   |203.212.128.xxx |2010-10-20 15:23:41
i reckon in arguing this party dhould present an a lternative to the filter on i
ts policies i propose lobbying the un for greater cooperation between l aw enfo
rcement agencies worldwide having the host server identified and giving it to t
he correspondi ng law enforcement agency even lobbying for an int erpol task for
ce to combat this material cause all we've don is argue against the filter with
out pre senting a viable alternative

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