ACMA agrees education as effective as filtering
February 26, 2008 – 9:26 amJust like most of us have been saying since day one: education is the key to helping protect children from the dangers they face when accessing the web. Stephen Conroy’s own department practically agrees. The ACMA’s latest report says education about online safety would be just as effective as internet filtering to prevent children from accessing inappropriate material on the web.
We educate children about keeping safe in the real world, and now we need to educate them about staying safe on the Internet. And guess what: It’s actually much safer on the Internet than outside!
Read the full News.com.au article here, and the recent ACMA report here.
- Mike
2 Responses to “ACMA agrees education as effective as filtering”
At this time there’s a busted link for the News.com.au article.
The ACMA I suspect are in a tough place, getting contradictory instructions from Conroy on filtering. Conroy can just pretend there is a magic working filter out there, but the authors of that report were sadly more constrained by reality.
By Colin on Feb 26, 2008
Colin Thanks Colin, link now updated. You’re right. Conroy’s press release makes the ACMA report sound like it’s evidence for the immediate implementation of ISP filtering. It’s far from it. The ACMA are in a hard position.
By Mike on Feb 26, 2008