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Australia will do to the Internet as well as China

The Australian Government has submitted its plan to implement a rigid system of filtering Internet content. The application would block all sites with the criminal and undesirable content, lists of which will be provided an independent organization.

The Australian Government has announced that it plans to introduce tough new laws on Internet filtering in the Chinese style of action Government, despite extensive criticism of the plan from the public, reported CNews.

According to Stephen Conroy (Stephen Conroy), Australia’s Minister for Communications, the new laws will be aimed primarily at ban user access to a variety of “indecent” sites containing various criminal content such as child porn or dangerous information on drugs and violence.

Sites will be classified a special independent body with the help process “of public complaints,” said Conroy, recognizing that such a solution to the dangerous content in the web is quite controversial.

In Australia, many criticized the draft of the Government, noting that he would restrict the freedom of speech and generally doomed to failure. Particularly active against the plan protests by various internet groups, representatives of the pornography industry and some other organizations. They argue that block access to some legitimate sites and limit the connection to the web users illegally.

However, Conroy believes that seven months testing new measures showed their effectiveness. In his view, to block unwanted resources can be conducted with absolute precision, without damage to the legitimate resources, and will not have a significant negative impact on the speed of your connection to the internet Australians, reports AP.

In within large-scale action of the Australian Government to filter Internet providers also offer special filters that help block various undesirable content such as pornography or gambling sites, but it will not be mandatory.

“Through a combination of additional resources, which was started to educate citizens about the Internet, mandatory filtering unwanted content on the Web and optional filtration through Internet service providers, we can balance the security of the Internet on families and benefits of the digital revolution”, – said Stephen Conroy.

The new laws will be presented in Parliament in August 2010, and for their implementation will require about another year.

To date, one of the strictest censorship of web systems developed in China, a country with the largest number of Internet users (298 million). The Chinese Government has a program to rid the internet of all “indecent content».

So, recently, in July 2009 the Government banned the online game, in which there is a mafia and street gangs, due to the fact that they “contribute to antisocial behavior and harm young people.” Now outlawed in China, all games in which “represented antisocial behavior gangsters – fights, murder, theft and fraud.” According to the authorities of the country, such games should be banned because they “pose a serious threat to the establishment of law-abiding and highly moral society, as well as easily harm the youth».

Shortly before China introduced its new five-year program to rid the online games from unwanted content. In addition, the Chinese Government has also recently issued a plan in which Internet content filtering software will be installed on all computers sold in the country.