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Today’s op-ed in Australian IT by Bernadette McMenamin, CEO of an organization called Child Wise is naive at best, dangerous at worst. McMenamin, whose organization seeks to prevent child sexual abuse, claims that Australia’s internet filtering scheme is the solution to preventing child pornography on the Internet. She argues that ISP-level filtering is one part [...]
Enough is Enough
I don’t make a habit of defending crimes of either child pornography or copyright infringement, but in this particular instance, I’m speaking up… An Australian man has been convicted of possessing child pornography and of accessing child pornography on his computer and fined AUS$3,000. “Why the small penalty?”, you might be asking. “Why is this [...]


















