If a site is deemed ‘unsuitable, evil, immoral or illegal” will it be excluded for search engine indices …..
As the world was celebrating New Year’s, the Australian government planned to mandate ISP filtering. The idea is that the Australian Communications and Media Authority would draft up a list of “unsuitable sites,” and ISPs would have to block them. Australians who want an unfiltered internet will have to call up and demand it ….
(Raise up your hands if you want unclean, evil ,immoral, unfiltered internet content … and risk being registering yourself and get labelled as an officially registered pervert!!
How about having the privacy to be a pervert?!!
How about an unofficial backdoor!)
…. but says there are easier ways to discover what is on IWF’s secret list, such as searching Google and then finding out which pages cannot be found through BT’s internet service.
However, Google says it removes illegal material from its index if it becomes aware of it.
That’s the kind of argument that should get attention around the world. Child pornography is horrific, and so our ISPs are on the watch for it all the time. Mandatory filtering of “unsuitable” material, however, could go far beyond child porn and reach anything that a current sovereign felt was unsavory.
