http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22218715-15306,00.htmlJOHN Howard is going to spend $189 million on "cleaning up the internet" for Australian families, blocking ***********, upgrading the search for chat-room *** predators and cutting off terror sites.
Every Australian family will be provided with a free internet filter and the federal Government will enter an unprecedented partnership with service providers to filter *********** at the source.
Communications and Australian Federal Police resources will be boosted immediately to expand checks on internet chat rooms to detect child predators, and privacy laws masking *** offenders on the net will be altered.
The Prime Minister unveiled his new net commandments last night on a webcast to more than 700 churches and thousands of churchgoers around the country.
Mr Howard and Kevin Rudd delivered the addresses on the 2007 election campaign to 770 Christian churches of all denominations.
Mr Howard and the Opposition Leader agreed to speak for 20 minutes and answer questions from church leaders at the National Press Club in Canberra as part of the Australian Christian Lobby's campaign to get Christians to make their vote count.
Both leaders attend church and have appealed to Christian voters to support them.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070827/013237.shtmlAustralian Internet **** Filter Cracked By Kid
Remember a few weeks ago how the Australian government was getting ready to spend many millions of dollars on internet **** filters? We ridiculed the second part of the plan, which was to force ISPs to filter the internet, but the first part of the plan was to hand out free client-side filters that could be installed on computers by parents. The cost to the government was a mere $84 million Australian (about $70 million US). It should come as no surprise, though, that a teenager claims it took him all of about half an hour to crack the filter. Even better, he says he did so in a way that the icon still shows on the computer, so parents will think the software is still working. Of course, there are always ways to get around filters and it's not hard for many kids to figure them out. Still, rather than recognizing that the government has wasted many millions of dollars on a futile program, one of the main political backers of the program said it only highlights why the country needs to spend even more on filters, including those ISP filters that won't work either.
or better yet, to bomb America.They should've used it to hunt down the baby eating dingos
no, you're too stupid, you'd probably bomb yourselves.We would pwn your criminal *****.