Archive for December 2008
Conroys Doomed Filter
It’s well established that Senator Conroy’s Internet filter plan is technically in conflict with his other major policy, providing 12MBps Internet to the bush via a Government funded National Broadband Network.
Here, Iljitsch van Beijnum (Arstechnica) rather eloquently describes how the Australian Internet filter plan actually misses it’s policy target by a rather embarrassing margin.
“Here’s an idea: if the Australian government actually finds child porn, nuclear bomb making manuals, and the like on the Internet, why not do their best to find the perpetrators and put them behind bars? That way we get to keep our free speech and have less crime and terrorism, rather than less of the former without actually reducing the latter. Then again, imposing restrictions on what local taxpayers can do is a lot easier than tracking down and rounding up international criminals and terrorists, and the filtering plan is moving forward despite the massive and fairly obvious drawbacks.”