[Chapter-delegates] content filtering around the world

[Rimon Levy]

Following Sivasubramanian request: 
 
In Israel, a bill proposal (declared to aim "the protection of
children") was submitted 3 years ago, proposing to make mandatory for
ISP to filter any content on "gambling, violence and pornography" - the
original proposal even included the need for any user to identify
himself biometrically as an adult every time he asked to access such
content. After many protests, leaded by ISOC-IL, a more moderated
version was approved on first call (to be accepted, a law in Israel must
be pass 3 votes in the parlament), 2 years ago. The bill in its actual
form does not mention biometrical identification, but still is opt-out
(that means that the default for ISP is to provide filtered content).
And the wording permits the Ministry of Communications to nominate the
commission that will decide on filtering policy and the mechanism [Rimon
Levy] of identifying an adult (and potentially permitting him later to
use biometrical identification).
ISOC-IL is making every effort to avoid the apoval of the proposed bill,
and offering an alternative self regulation model. We hope that in the
next month we will able to crystalise an agreement between ISPs and
content providers that will provide a voluntary mechanism to protect
children from offensive content without the need of government
regulation 

Rimon Levy. ISOC-IL 

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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:43:50 +0530
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn at gmail.com>
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] content filtering around the world.
Could Chapter-delegates write in on this thread about what is happening
on
the Content Filtering front in their countries with what they feel about
similarities ( though other Governments wouldn't issue directives like
how
China did) of the underlying software of the China Green Dam Youth
Escort,
to gain a global perspective on content filtering?