The spectre of broadscale Internet censorship in Australia has been covered previously here on The Next Web before, but many outside Australia may wonder: why should you care if you don’t live in Australia. If you’re not aware of what’s proposed, the short version is that Australia is proposing to introduce a compulsory firewall that filters content based on a blacklist of banned sites

What’s going to be on that list is even now still somewhat confused. The Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy has stated that all Refused Classification content will be banned, which in Australia would extend to computer games and online casino games unsuitable for children especialloy in Australia that has no adult (R18+) rating for computer games, small breasts, information about euthanasia, discussion forums on anorexia, as well as the usual nasties of child porn. To complicate matters, a site may be refused classification in Australia if it links to a site that is refused classification, which could literally result in half the internet being blocked.

The Austarlian Government plans to impose mandatory Internet filtering at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level. There are two lists, a “child safe” list which filters both illegal content and explicit pornography; a second which users can opt-out to which only filters unwanted content. Austarlia's federal has engaged to pursuing its plan to censor the Internet, blocking sites encompassing online casinos and even sports betting sites thought via arbitrary officials to be harmful. The censor board, a small team of bureaucratic staff whose decisions are imposed without audit or announcement, has decided to include nudity involving women with small breasts in the ban.

On the authority of a report on boingboing.net, the Adult Classification Board has very resolute that nudity of women with A-cups is a sneaky pattern of pedophilia and should be omitted as progeny pornography. The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has consistently ignored advice from a host of technical experts saying the filters would slow the internet, block legitimate sites, be easily bypassed and fall short of capturing all of the nasty content available online. Despite this, he is pushing ahead with trials of the scheme using six ISPs - Primus, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1. But even the trials have been heavily discredited, with experts saying the lack of involvement from the three largest ISPs, Telstra, Optus and iiNet, means the trials will not provide much useful data on the effects of internet filtering in the real-world.

Online casino sites are hoping complaints by the Australian public and Internet providers will quickly end the era of censorship in this land once known for bold thinking.

News Source: http://www.onlinecasinoadvisory.com/casino-news/online/small-breasts-blocked-with-online-gambling-by-australia-43591.htm

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