ACMA agrees education as effective as filtering
Just 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...
Ovum report finds Australian ISP level filtering will cost the customer and give big biz advantage
The Howard Government commissioned a number of investigations into the effectiveness of Internet content filtering, including filtering at an ISP level and at an even higher Government/Internet backbone level. One of these investigations was conducted by Melbourne telecoms and software consulting firm, Ovum, in 2003 on behalf of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and...