Australian web censorship plan heads towards a dead end
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Thank god for that... it was a crap idea, poorly thought out and even more poorly (to be) implemented...
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!! Booger Mobile - Camp Quality esCarpade 2010
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Josh Gray wrote:
The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.[^]
Interesting. The idea originated with the now Opposition when they were in Government. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22218715-15306,00.html[^] Apparently, they have had a change of heart. I note with some amusement the statement that: "A recent survey by Netspace of 10,000 of the ISP's customers found 61 per cent strongly opposed mandatory internet filtering with only 6.3 per cent strongly agreeing with the policy." I am a Netspace customer myself and the survey was a complete joke. Every question had a lengthy preamble which basically said "filtering totally sucks". It would have been a miracle if the survey had come up with different conclusions.
John Carson
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Josh Gray wrote:
The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.[^]
Interesting. The idea originated with the now Opposition when they were in Government. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22218715-15306,00.html[^] Apparently, they have had a change of heart. I note with some amusement the statement that: "A recent survey by Netspace of 10,000 of the ISP's customers found 61 per cent strongly opposed mandatory internet filtering with only 6.3 per cent strongly agreeing with the policy." I am a Netspace customer myself and the survey was a complete joke. Every question had a lengthy preamble which basically said "filtering totally sucks". It would have been a miracle if the survey had come up with different conclusions.
John Carson
The difference is, John, that Howard's idea was to provide free filtering software (which was provided, even though it was a joke, but hey, he did what he said he would) to families for their use IF THEY WANTED TO INSTALL IT, whereas Krudd's idea was to implement MANDATORY filtering at the ISP level, with a blacklist of sites that wasn't open to public scrutiny, with no details on how/who/why sites would get onto the list. See the difference?
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!! Booger Mobile - Camp Quality esCarpade 2010
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The difference is, John, that Howard's idea was to provide free filtering software (which was provided, even though it was a joke, but hey, he did what he said he would) to families for their use IF THEY WANTED TO INSTALL IT, whereas Krudd's idea was to implement MANDATORY filtering at the ISP level, with a blacklist of sites that wasn't open to public scrutiny, with no details on how/who/why sites would get onto the list. See the difference?
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!! Booger Mobile - Camp Quality esCarpade 2010
_Damian S_ wrote:
The difference is, John, that Howard's idea was to provide free filtering software (which was provided, even though it was a joke, but hey, he did what he said he would) to families for their use IF THEY WANTED TO INSTALL IT, whereas Krudd's idea was to implement MANDATORY filtering at the ISP level, with a blacklist of sites that wasn't open to public scrutiny, with no details on how/who/why sites would get onto the list. See the difference?
From the article I linked to on the Howard plan:
Every Australian family will be provided with a free internet filter and the federal Government will enter an unprecedented partnership with service providers to filter pornography at the source.
John Carson
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Thank god for that... it was a crap idea, poorly thought out and even more poorly (to be) implemented...
Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!! Booger Mobile - Camp Quality esCarpade 2010
_Damian S_ wrote:
Thank god for that... it was a crap idea, poorly thought out and even more poorly (to be) implemented...
You seem to be asserting that the thinking had come to an end. I would have thought that running pilot programs for testing was a means to come to a well thought out conclusion.
John Carson
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Wicked! :cool: It was way too retarded a plan to actually work.
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It is scary that they were even considering it...
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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Your government knows whats best for you. Shut up. Who do you think you are? Get back in line and do your duties!.
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Your government knows whats best for you. Shut up. Who do you think you are? Get back in line and do your duties!.
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Your government knows whats best for you. Shut up. Who do you think you are? Get back in line and do your duties!.
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Does it mess with your narrow world-view that not everybody thinks it's a good idea just because the government tells them so?