“…under a Tony Abbott government, Australians would have “adult content” filters installed on their phone services and fixed internet services…” [#geekgirl]
[From this article at ZDNet] “A Liberal National government in Australia would adopt the opt-out UK approach to filtering the internet for all Australians.
The policy comes less than 41 hours before polls open for voting in federal election where the Coalition is currently expected to win. It is also almost a year after the Labor government abandoned its plans for mandatory internet filtering, and three years after the Coalition announced it would not support a policy for mandatory internet filtering.
The announcement, buried in a AU$10 million online safety policy published online today (PDF) announces that under a Tony Abbott government, Australians would have “adult content” filters installed on their phone services and fixed internet services unless they opt out.
“We will work with mobile phone companies (such as Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and their resellers) to develop online safety standards for smartphones and other devices with mobile network connectivity such as tablets, applicable to their use by children in two age groups: children up to the age of 12 years and teenagers,” the policy states.”