It's a bandwagon that is gaining momentum in seemingly liberal democracies. The aussies started off by saying they were going to ban child porn sites, but then added that they'd also censor the internet for other inappropriate content. "Inappropriate" hasn't been clearly defined, but would probably be the sort of stuff you didn't want kids seeing.
Anyway, as an adult, you'd have to opt-in to see this adult content. Which no one's going to do, because it makes you look like a pervert. So, effectively, Canberra will reverse the 1960's cultural revolution in one flick of the switch.
What's even worse is that when they tested the filtering systems, they found that the software decreased the speed of web surfing by 21 to 86 percent, falsely blocked 10 percent of safe sites, and didn't filter peer-to-peer networks, rendering the system pretty ineffectual at blocking child porn.
It's a bandwagon that is gaining momentum in seemingly liberal democracies. The aussies started off by saying they were going to ban child porn sites, but then added that they'd also censor the internet for other inappropriate content. "Inappropriate" hasn't been clearly defined, but would probably be the sort of stuff you didn't want kids seeing.
Anyway, as an adult, you'd have to opt-in to see this adult content. Which no one's going to do, because it makes you look like a pervert. So, effectively, Canberra will reverse the 1960's cultural revolution in one flick of the switch.
What's even worse is that when they tested the filtering systems, they found that the software decreased the speed of web surfing by 21 to 86 percent, falsely blocked 10 percent of safe sites, and didn't filter peer-to-peer networks, rendering the system pretty ineffectual at blocking child porn.
And that's why the internet is slow in Qatar.