Senator Fielding has signalled he wants a range of material blocked, including hard-core pornography and fetish material. Senator Xenophon has indicated he wants access to offshore gaming sites restricted
While I also agree with this in principal (and mourn the fact that it exists at all), what sort of people are going to have roll their sleeves up and expose themselves (pardon the pun) to the presumably mountains of groaning moaning quivering and heaving material needing classification in order to protect the rest of us from accidentally encountering it ?!
Will "Work for the dole" recipients be press-ganged into doing the dirty work under threat of losing benefits, or will it be farmed out to various churches for the little old ladies to organise over tea and cucumber sandwiches ? :)
Yes, I admit that mine was one of the votes that put Senator Fielding where he is, but I'm beginning to wonder if this man knows what he is asking when he suggests this kind of stuff.
I'm curious how he can expect others to sort and rifle through material that he doesn't want to be available to the general public and presumably doesn't want to see and hear himself !
Also, presumably after prolonged exposure to aforementioned mountains of censorables, one may well become somewhat desensitised to it all.
This presents even more problems such as how to maintain constant objectivity towards material submitted for classification, and just how is a work place related injury compensation determined regarding long term psychological damage, etc, as a result of continued exposure to illegal and distateful material.
Just how is the master filter list going to be arrived at ?
Tis one thing to install a list of urls (although looking at the first page of Spybot Search and Destory's blocked host list is disturbing enough thank you very much), but surely quite another to have to browse submitted url data in the first place to ensure it is what it is claimed to be.
I wouldn't want that kind of job for any money in the world ... and nor would I be all that happy at having to hire someone else to do it, as it would be quite hypocritical if not immoral to hire someone to the kind of job being talked about here when not willing to do it oneself.
What a can of worms, eh ?
regarDS
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