“ Spot on Mr. Mokofisi, the lack of oversight with this sort of approach is a concern/unclear.
The interesting bit though is having a Commission decide what is morally correct for the rest of us - the list of blocked sites may start with child abuse sites but can potentially expand to cover whatever else the Commission deemed "not good for the community". 'Commission' is a big word that seems to be thrown around as if 'they' are our fail-safe solution to any misuse/biased decision-making... and yet a 'Commission' is nothing more than a group of humans capable of misusing power and biased decisions.
Anyhow, this is a classic example of trying to address a social issue with a technical solution... slightly more amusing though is legislating based on a technical solution - technology constantly changes and in this particular technology - there are many ways to circumvent the proposed ISP filters.
The concern that children with mobiles are accessing inappropriate content is valid, however, the responsibility should belong to parents not the 'state' - and rather than the "Opt out filtering" that the bill talks about - perhaps the Govt should propose a bill that directs ISPs to re-engineer their current business processes to ensure that minors do not have access to mobile sim cards etc... and if a customer is of legal age then the customer makes a moral decision whether or not a filter is to be placed on the 'service' rather than the government mandating that a customer is 'censored' by DEFAULT when a new internet service is provisioned….
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