[plug] PORNO and our internet

[Buddrige, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Greg Mildenhall [SMTP:greg at networx.net.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 19, 1999 5:39 PM
> To:	Perth Linux Users Group
> Subject:	Re: [plug] PORNO and our internet
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, David Bastow wrote:
> > It seems the thing that is getting our friend Senator Harridine most
> upset
> > is the fact that you do a perfectly inoccent web-search for `breast
> > cancer' and end up with a result-set brimming with porn.
> 
The problem is that it seems that Senator Harridine doesn't understand that
the very reason that you get all of these "porn" pages is precisely the same
reason why trying to censor them is impossible (at least - not automatically
anyway) - because to a computer, there is no difference between a page
containing info on "breast cancer" and "breasts for display"... this very
fact is what makes the "censor software" break all the time - or censor
things that ought not to be censored -ie. breast cancer pages.

regards

David...