Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code
More Australians need to know about this because it’s bullshit and it sets a dangerous precedence. Does nobody in government understand the internet? You can’t hide things from anyone - the technology and entire premise of the internet relies on everything being publicly available. You definitely can’t hide stuff from a subset of users.
And why is it always Google that takes the heat for this kind of thing? Do these people not know that Google doesn’t host the “bad stuff”, it just makes it findable? This is like putting a padlock on the phone book - you can still dial the phone numbers!
I don’t know what we’re supposed to do about this. Write to your Member of Parliament I guess.
Also, The Hon Anika Wells MP is our Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport?? I don’t think you could pair up two industries that are further apart from each other than those two. Jack of all trades, master of none…