AUSTRALIA’S INTERNET LAWS ARE BASICALLY USELESS, according to this report:

Following a survey on Monday showing 84 per cent of boys aged between 16 and 17 were exposed to pornography on the internet, the Australia Institute on Tuesday released a second report saying Australian regulatory authorities had manifestly failed.

Australia Institute executive director Clive Hamilton said the survey results showed the present system of internet regulation managed by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) was next to useless.

“It is inexplicable why the ABA and the minister for communications say they have the problem under control,” Dr Hamilton said.

Oh, probably because they’re bureaucrats. This is no surprise, of course, and ought to serve as a reminder that similar proposals for Internet regulation in the United States are likely to prove equally useless.