According to Stephen Conroy, you can click this button and nasty content on the internet will just disappear 🙂 Thank you Stephen – I feel so much safer now!
According to Stephen Conroy, you can click this button and nasty content on the internet will just disappear 🙂 Thank you Stephen – I feel so much safer now!
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Two question immediately occur to me (skipping over the obvious “why?”)
Does it come as a fridge magnet?
and
How long before someone hacks it and opens fun backdoors through it?
🙂 I wish.
Unfortunately, it’s nothing more than a link in disguise. It takes you to a page on the DBCDE site that says “If you are in danger call ‘000’ or tell an adult that you trust”. You can then click through get a page fragment that lists complaint links for AOL, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook et. al. or you could get a link to the Kids Helpline to get help with being cyber-bullied.
It’s all very anemic, really. Rather than the government offering personal filtering software that can actually block material that is offensive, our taxes go to pay for a landing page that is the front end for a series of questions that result in a request being sent to ACMA to block a site , as well as the above banalities.
I actually haven’t seen any mainstream media coverage of this yet, and no mention of the government trumpeting this “achievement” from the battlements; what I saw was a mention in the official Google Australia blog, and I actually think that Conroy might be faintly embarrassed to be seen proclaiming this as progress.
So it probably would be more useful as a fridge magnet!