[quote]The federal coalition has announced it will scrap controversial plans for an internet filter if it wins the August 21 election.
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said on Thursday a coalition government would abandon Labor's "flawed" filter policy.
Instead, a Tony Abbott-led government would encourage parents to take more responsibility for monitoring their children's use of the web.
"We believe the internet filter would not work," Mr Hockey told ABC Radio's Triple J.
"We believe it's flawed policy. It's not going to capture a whole lot of images and chatter that we all find offence that is going through email."
The coalition would give parents greater control, he said.
"The ISP-based filter system does not work.
"Therefore it creates a level of assumption of trust that cannot be met by the technology."
Opposition communications spokesman Tony Smith later confirmed the coalition's new policy position.
"A coalition government will not introduce a mandatory ISP level filter," he said in a statement.
"We will instead implement practical and effective measures to enhance online safety and security including PC-based filters for families."
Mr Smith said Labor's plan would not work and the coalition had "a different and better approach".
A spokesman for Mr Smith said a "comprehensive" online security policy would be released in "the coming days".
Mr Hockey has long been a critic of the government's proposed filter.
Earlier this year, he said it would create the "infrastructure" for government censorship on a broad scale.
"I have personal responsibility as a parent," he said in March.
"If I want to stop my children from viewing material that I feel is inappropriate then that is my responsibility to do something about it - not that of the government."
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy last month delayed the introduction of Labor's controversial filter while a review of material to be blocked is undertaken.
The review is expected to take 12 months.
[b]Source:[/b] [url]http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/coalition-to-dump-flawed-net-filter-20100805-11knl.html[/url][/quote]
[b]Tl;dr:[/b] The major Australian opposition party, the Liberal/National Coalition will not instate a mandatory internet filter, unlike the current Labor government.
The opposition is currently slightly in the lead with the polls too, with an election in two weeks.
:woop::woop::woop:
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[QUOTE=niko2410;23844525]Looks like they're getting desperate for those votes.[/QUOTE]
They're capitalizing on shitty unworkable policy.
Looks like we can look forward to finally putting the tired "Australia bans x" jokes to rest.
Coalition - No internet filter.
Labour - National Broadband Network.
[QUOTE=Khaos-23;23844641]Coalition - No internet filter.
Labour - National Broadband Network.[/QUOTE]
Labor just spent a large chunk of the NBN funds on their election campaign advertising. :suicide:
Plus it's scheduled for completion in 2018, so i'm guessing it would never have been completed anyway.
The majority of Labor votes will be fucktards saying "WE WANT A FEMALE PRIME MINISTER".
told you it's not gonna happen
brb voting for coalition
*phew, that was a close call, even if Labor wins they'll have no choice but to deny it because us as a country won't accept this shit.
But if he ends the fast broadband thing, off with his head.
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that we all find offence to
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If you weren't reading other people's fucking emails in the first place you never would've seen the "offensive" content! Also, apparently we all don't "find offence" to the content if there are still people looking at it.
Fucksake, you're still not getting my vote abbott, you cockface.
If you do a bit of research, the roles were reversed about 10 years ago with Liberals proposing ISP filtering and Labor opposing it. Also, reading between the lines, the statement is that Liberal is going to scrap [i]this[/i] flawed policy without ruling out internet filtering altogether. In fact, you can feel that the Liberals wouldn't be particularly against it.
This is just the Libs jumping on the ALP's blotched projects to gain support.
Liberal 4 Lyfe
Realistically only one of two parties will get into power. Labor or Liberal.
At the moment the choice is fairly clear as to who should be removed.
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[QUOTE=Jabberwocky;23845938]Also, reading between the lines, the statement is that Liberal is going to scrap [i]this[/i] flawed policy without ruling out internet filtering altogether. In fact, you can feel that the Liberals wouldn't be particularly against it.[/QUOTE]
The libs had an optional filter available for parents to install on the computers for free, no mandatory anything. But they still made it available. That's their policy to this day.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;23844566]Looks like we can look forward to finally putting the tired "Australia bans x" jokes to rest.[/QUOTE]
Australia bans the filter.
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