CP80 - Plan to create a porn free "community port"
 

I'm not sure what to make of this site:
http://www.cp80.org/

Amid all the usual anti-porn hysteria and dubious research is an idea that may actually have merit: they want to create a "community port" which offers a whitelist of sites. Essentially, this is the .kid idea via another method.

They're lobbying the govt here in Australia to do it, not sure if they're succeeding or not - the new lot are still talking about ISP filtering which we'd have to opt out of (great fun).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...06/2181828.htm
(The comments on that story are worth reading - almost 100% are against filtering and for better parenting).

What do you guys think? Impossible to police? Scary because they're talking about legislation? Or will it make our lives easier because it gets the fundies off our back?

They've been trying to screw with things for quite awhile. The problem is the same as the .XXX and other scenarios. How many sites are going to limit themselves to CP80 when some do-gooder might decide flip the switch at the ISP/Backbone levels and shut them down. You may even get opposition also from the RR because it may be seen as legalizing porn.

I posted about their latest effort in the USA a little while ago. How many newbies know how to secure their home wireless?|confused| I can pick up 7 unsecured networks just from home.
USA House Bill 139 introduces civil penalties if a minor is able to access pornography over public wireless.|club|
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=45459

Some of their other BS.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ta...nG=Search+News

The thing that made me pay attention rather than dismiss it out of hand was their belief that there should essentially two internets. One with everything on it, and one that was filtered. So it's actually an understanding that you can't control everything and that not everyone wants you to anyway. That's quite a leap in thinking for these people.

The problem is that our government is taking them seriously, I suspect :(