SOUTH AFRICA’S NEWSWATCH EQUATES CHINA AND AUSTRALIA WITH ONLINE CENSORSHIP
January 8th 2008 01:45
Australia and China have again been equated with online censorship, this time in South Africa’s Newswatch.
Newswatch reported, “There is no news roundup these days of the most important stories in our industry without a mention of the internet and how it is influencing media and society, how our brands are now consumed or marketing efforts around it. So much so, that from China to Australia, the politicians are trying to control it too.
”China has announced new rules to control the explosion of audio-visual content on the internet, in a move seen as an effort to transfer the government's television- and radio-censorship model to websites, reports the Mail & Guardian
Meanwhile, The Australian reports that ‘broadband’ minister Stephen Conroy faces an uphill struggle in his plans to increase internet censorship by boosting the official blacklist from a puny 1000 web pages to many millions of banned websites.
Industry commentators say the task may be beyond the capabilities of filtering mechanisms and procedures, and it would be impossible to block all such material.
Conroy will seek to halt access to child pornography, X-rated and violent material for all home users through mandatory filtering by internet service providers. But the scope of the problem is immense. Policing child pornography alone could be beyond present capabilities.
- From MediaBlab
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