No Opt-out Of Filtered Internet

[Dillz]

So normal porns still good yeah??

[nang3]

normal porn is fine.. to start with.. few years, who knows!!

[Dillz]

Phew..

[turbo.vixen]

if its only filtering out the bad porn, it makes me wonder what all the people that are against this are looking at?

[ubute]

Well it's not just filtering out "bad" porn, it's filtering out anything with refused classification which could also include "good" porn.

The fact is it isn't 100% accurate so it doesn't block all the sites it should, and it blocks a percentage of sites that it shouldn't. It only works on HTTP and most of the dodgy dealings are likely done using other protocols like IM messengers, ftp, irc, peer to peer etc. which makes it next to useless.

It's only really going to stop people accidentally coming across dodgy crap as if someone really wanted to find it, the filter would be relatively easily circumnavigated.

It also has an overhead on our already typically ordinary internet download speeds. In general it's a piss poor techological solution with a high cost and no clear advantages. They're taking money away from the federal police that is spent trying to catch paedos etc and putting it into this filter which will make parents feel safe with their kids surfing the net unsupervised.

[dule]

They should try saving money on prosecuting and protection for the pedos and shoot them instead....

[nang3]

+ 1 to the last 2 posts !

[BarKer]

Oh Noes, Teh Interwebz Is Doomed!

Well, atleast it might get rid of the 'babytalk' fad....

[kevo]

Ausfalia strikes again, this country is getting worse and worse.. soon its gonna be embarassing to say im australian!!

yeah, I said that once the hoon laws came into full effect. For f*cks sake Australia has the most f*cked up rules.

second to North korea

[smicky]

Internet filter - national day of protest on March 6th

by David Heath

Thursday, 07 January 2010

There is a growing groundswell of protest against Conroy’s internet filter. This is planned to culminate in a national day of protest on March 6th.

Readers will not be surprised to know that this author has not been a proponent of the government’s Internet filtering technology. However all over Australia, ordinary people are starting to agree that the government’s proposed Internet filter is a completely pointless exercise. Worse, a very expensive pointless exercise. Worse even still, a pointless exercise that actually inhibits the ability of Australian enforcement agencies to detect and prosecute genuine offenders.

For well over a year, technically competent people have been expressing very strong doubts as to the validity of the filter, but this is starting to spread much wider.

Leading through a Facebook page a new grass-roots organisation (without a name!) is planning a national day of protest.

At the moment, they are arranging local venues and Police permits with a view to having a very loud protest right in the middle of the anticipated debating period for the legislation.

At noon on Saturday March 6th, at major venues in every Australian capital city the Federal government will hear the opinion of (hopefully) a huge body of ordinary Australians.

According to Matthew George, a spokesman for the group, “We are a group of Australians that represent the Australian public as a whole against the censorship of the internet via the Clean Feed Initiative Kevin Rudd's government is putting into action. We plan on protesting the filter to raise awareness of its shortcomings, how it will not protect children from online predators and how it will not block restricted content distributed by peer to peer networks and underground child porn rings. The protest is geared towards being a civilized, family friendly event with guest speakers discussing details of internet censorship."

Further information will be provided as it becomes available.