If you’re like me you’ll be furious when you read the latest information the Australia Government has released on the proposed ISP-level filtering of online content.
Duncan Riley has stated his concerns over on his blog. Duncan was also responsible for the Techcrunch article that I linked to in my article back on the 9th of January this year, Big Brother Down Under.
The full report can be downloaded from the ACMA website on pdf.
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i think this is to block kiddy porn and messed up stuff like that.
i reckon it’s a good idea as long as it works properly – that’s the hard part
I don’t have a problem with them wanting to filter out messed up stuff, what I think the problem is is that we’ll have it automatically applied to all of our accounts and if you want out you have to tell them.
A better way to do it would be to offer it as a service for people to opt in to, so that people who don’t want the government telling them what they can and cant look at aren’t effected.
And what’s to stop them filtering out anything comments on websites like ‘hey fuck the australian government they’re all a pack of fuckers’. If you take away peoples freedom of speech we end up like China or North Korea where you can get imprisoned for speaking out against the government, that’s no democracy.
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