Mobiles A “Pipeline For Perversion”

Australian ICT Minister Helen Coonan has reportedly called mobile phones a pipeline for perversion…let’s hear it for political grandstanding!! To be fair, the words quoted in the title aren’t attributed in the article, but they do match Coonan’s earlier statements.
Some reactions to her statements:
“It’s not clear from the Minister’s statement how accessing the Internet from a phone is different from accessing it from a computer,” said Australian Interactive Media Industry Association CEO John Butterworth. “If it’s already banned from the Internet in Australia then there’s not much point extending that ban to Internet accessed on mobile phones as it would be covered anyway.”
Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde doesn’t need to be quite so circumspect and came straight out with what everybody knows: it’s a political move. “It is a futile exerciseâ

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