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(SMH) Obvious Australian government shocked that $85 million porn filter software couldn't overcome the sex drive of millions of young Aussies   (smh.com.au) divider line 69
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King Something [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 03:38:15 PM  
Giggity

 
abb3w [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 03:50:19 PM  
You'd think some of these Aussie government officials would remember their own youth.

 
leperboy69 2008-02-16 03:50:43 PM  
Yet another stupid Howard government decision that will hopefully bite the dust. Good.

 
leperboy69 2008-02-16 03:51:42 PM  
Although I should probably say the current government's plans to do ISP-level filtering are equally as stupid...

 
SpinStopper [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 04:02:21 PM  
Good grief. When I was 13-14, I would just walk into the corner convenience store and buy porn magazines.

The two women behind the counter thought it was hilarious.

Some people are wound up a little too tightly on some 'moral' issues ;)

 
Oh_Enough_Already 2008-02-16 04:12:01 PM  
Cough.

Abby Winters.

Cough.

What's the filter to keep young Aussies from making porn?

 
Oh_Enough_Already 2008-02-16 04:14:31 PM  
Tom Wood, the "Porn Cracker."

That needs to be made into a Mento's type commercial.

 
mitsubachi 2008-02-16 04:18:46 PM  
...And for this, we Australians say "sorry".

 
Oldiron_79 2008-02-16 05:07:33 PM  
dailyramblings.com

 
Richard Pye 2008-02-16 05:07:46 PM  
So does it filter the porn out, or everything else out? Because I'm getting kind of sick of all these words on the 'net.

 
Shiftless 2008-02-16 05:07:57 PM  
$85 million is the new $85 thousand.

 
LoneStarJustin 2008-02-16 05:10:16 PM  
mmmmm...kangaroo sex

 
The Voice of Doom 2008-02-16 05:10:40 PM  
From what I remember hearing, their ISP selection and broadband availability/prices are way more effective in keeping people from browsing porn.

 
zenmouse 2008-02-16 05:13:21 PM  
Im fairly certain that if we removed porn from the internet, it would cease to exist.

 
LGeezer 2008-02-16 05:13:28 PM  
After 12 months, 29,000 of an expected 2,500,000 filters are in use? If only there was some imagery that would graphically represent such a catastrophic mismatch between intent and outcome ...

failblog.files.wordpress.com

 
poorjon [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 05:14:09 PM  
All of human history has demonstrated that teenagers are horny. They are going to think about sex, and they are going to have sex. Any attempt to stop them from doing either of those things will fail. We should instead devote our efforts to get them to approach sex at least halfway intelligently so that they won't hurt themselves physically, emotionally, or financially.

 
muchomaas 2008-02-16 05:14:49 PM  
As the Boobies up above makes clear, these farking filters are nothing but a bunch of coont stuffed shiat farkers.

 
Falcc 2008-02-16 05:14:52 PM  
I thought you people elected a new guy! Why are you still having problems? Hell, I'm American and I liked the sound of the new guy.. I can't remember his name at the moment but that's becuase I'm horrible with names, not becuase I don't have a high opinion of him.

Oh well, I guess progress comes slowly in the face of puritanical mentalities.

 
systerchristian 2008-02-16 05:15:00 PM  
And once again the government just assumes it knows what people want and spends $$$$'s to find out it's wrong.

 
Gothmolly 2008-02-16 05:19:27 PM  
Don't all Australians walk around naked in the Outback, put mud on their faces, and have large, pendulous breasts ?

 
Richard Pye 2008-02-16 05:20:41 PM  
Gothmolly: Don't all Australians walk around naked in the Outback, put mud on their faces, and have large, pendulous breasts ?

The men do. Watch Crocodile Dundee.

 
Ikahoshi 2008-02-16 05:21:26 PM  
Here's a crazy idea.

Tell parents to protect their own kids from content they feel is inappropriate.

I'm sure the scheme could be implemented immediately with an estimated cost of lets see... *tapping on caclulator* $0 dollars per household.

 
l.i.m.b.o.t.h.e.l.a.w 2008-02-16 05:23:15 PM  
reverse filterpwn3d!

 
Phil Moskowitz 2008-02-16 05:23:43 PM  
What's with Nanny State junior? 85 mill on a complete cluster fark? Wow, and I was pissed at canada's gun registry debacle.

 
Shwirv 2008-02-16 05:24:09 PM  
shocked... SHOCKED!

 
Driver [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-02-16 05:25:50 PM  
The filters, they do nothing!

/Y'aint porn surfed until you done Aussie Rules porn surfing

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 05:29:17 PM  
No, cannot be, teens don't think about sex unless media shoves it down their throat.

 
ianjames 2008-02-16 05:31:20 PM  
Cough cough repeat cough.

 
maxheck 2008-02-16 05:33:11 PM  
I said this the last time this subject err... came up.

All we need to to solve any problem is to put porn on the far side of the solution.

Wantnooclear fusion? Set up a lapdance orgy for physicists if they solve the problem.

World peace? Line up hookers for every member of the UN General Assembly and this is all yours, *IF*.

Actually, that probably wouldn't work. I'm pretty sure everyone in the UN has a mistress. But the fusion thing might work!

 
aCiD99 2008-02-16 05:36:09 PM  
LGeezer: After 12 months, 29,000 of an expected 2,500,000 filters are in use? If only there was some imagery that would graphically represent such a catastrophic mismatch between intent and outcome ...

That's likely the greatest FAIL pic in existence. Kudos.

 
Scrophulous Barking Duck 2008-02-16 05:38:32 PM  
2.5 million was never remotely realistic. Since there are only about 2.5 households with children in Australia and internet penetration is about 64%, there should be at most 1.6 million homes with both internet connections and children. Factor in the number of children too young to use the internet and the number of people who would not even consider having extra government software on their computer and the projected 2.5 million becomes absurd.

 
Closed_Minded_Bastage 2008-02-16 05:42:11 PM  
QFT: "Proper supervision should be front and centre of any efforts to protect children from inappropriate material on the internet; supported by additional tools such as content filters, not some mandatory and ill-conceived 'clean feed' measure by a government that believes only it has the authority to decide what's appropriate or inappropriate content for computer users."

/Government FAILS once again.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 05:43:55 PM  
zenmouse: Im fairly certain that if we removed porn from the internet, it would cease to exist.

the lol cat sites would survive

 
Lupercanalius Assbarnacle 2008-02-16 05:45:24 PM  
muchomaas: As the Boobies up above makes clear, these farking filters are nothing but a bunch of coont stuffed shiat farkers.

Two thumbs up, one for the post and one for the Pynchon monicker.

 
Tiiba 2008-02-16 05:46:34 PM  
aCiD99: LGeezer: After 12 months, 29,000 of an expected 2,500,000 filters are in use? If only there was some imagery that would graphically represent such a catastrophic mismatch between intent and outcome ...

That's likely the greatest FAIL pic in existence. Kudos.


I like the one with the hurdle runner better.

 
darthgarlic 2008-02-16 05:52:36 PM  
Wow $2931.03 for a piece of software that does one job, poorly. Sounds like the US government had something to do with this.

 
MasterSFV 2008-02-16 05:56:37 PM  
You failed it!

 
Malevolution 2008-02-16 06:00:34 PM  
FTA: It was expected 2.5 million households would take up the free porn-blocking filters within 12 months but only 144,088 filter products have been downloaded or ordered on CD-ROM since August last year.

So this is apparently the reason the Oz Gummint has decided the software is a failure: "Less families adopted this `technology` than we had anticipated."

I think this approach to rating the software is... mistaken.

 
MasterSFV 2008-02-16 06:00:39 PM  
strix.org.uk

 
JWideman 2008-02-16 06:01:03 PM  
Here in lies the problem:
"NetAlert is a program which is relatively new, as is the minister in his role, and I'm sure he would like a little more than six months or so before the public decide if he has been a failure or not," he said.
Success or failure on the internet is measured in days, dumbass.

 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 06:03:06 PM  
I hope these idiots take a long, hard look on themselves.

 
FeBolas [TotalFark] 2008-02-16 06:17:48 PM  
poorjon: All of human history has demonstrated that teenagers are horny. They are going to think about sex, and they are going to have sex. Any attempt to stop them from doing either of those things will fail. We should instead devote our efforts to get them to approach sex at least halfway intelligently so that they won't hurt themselves physically, emotionally, or financially.

They don't make a THIS big enough for that paragraph.

 
GENETICBAGGAGE 2008-02-16 06:21:55 PM  
baka-san [TotalFark] Quote 2008-02-16 05:29:17 PM
No, cannot be, teens don't think about sex unless media shoves it down their throat.

Nice !!
///Giggity

 
CourtroomWolf 2008-02-16 06:24:01 PM  
Is it really that surPRising that the kids have fOund a workaround to get their seXY pictures?

 
Falcc 2008-02-16 06:26:51 PM  
CygnusDarius: I hope these idiots take a long, hard look on at themselves boobies.

FTFY

 
lmb 2008-02-16 06:27:10 PM  
.

 
spazzm 2008-02-16 06:40:09 PM  
Well, that's one stupid scheme designed to throttle Australia's nascent internet industry down, two to go:
New government proposes disconnecting filesharers after three infringements. (new window)
New government proposes mandatory porn-filter on all ISP's. (new window)

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Australia needs a strong internet industry. It needs good communication technology. It needs to develop its science and high-technology sectors.

Measures like this will only throttle the broadband industry by forcing them to implement useless filters, and by driving away customers.
These measures will have the effect of hampering science and technology, while driving more money and power to the greedy lawyers that run the music "industry".

 
TheDokta 2008-02-16 06:40:41 PM  
leperboy69: Although I should probably say the current government's plans to do ISP-level filtering are equally as stupid...

In fact it's much, much worse because it will hurt everyone's internet connection, not just the ones of lazy parents.

The single best "internet filter" you could ever hope to have is putting the computer in a room without a door, with the screen facing outwards.

 
zenmouse 2008-02-16 06:43:43 PM  
Bucky Katt: zenmouse: Im fairly certain that if we removed porn from the internet, it would cease to exist.

the lol cat sites would survive


Good point. And the 10% of Fark that isn't considered porn.

 
stuffy 2008-02-16 06:44:05 PM  
When? When! Will people stop trying to get technology to raise there kids.

 
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