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.”
Sorry mate, but how dopey can you get?
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Do you really believe that the Federal Police here and overseas are not doing their utmost within the framework of current laws and international co-operation to find these website owners??
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Give us a break and get back down from LaLa-Land…
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So you reckon we can just do a Rambo and go blazing off into China, Korea, Bulgaria, Russia, Iran or where-ever and apprehend these perpetrators?
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Oh dear, oh crap. What a nice rosey coloured bubble we just burst for Iljitsch van Beijnum and yourselves. Just dang nasty of me to bring some reality into the conversation, hey?
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This ie REAL LIFE, not some movie where we belt off undercover and nab the nasty guys under the noses of foreign governments and their own police, military,secret servcies etc.
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Where is Jason Bourne when you need him??
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The fact that many of these sites are also politically supported or tolerated by foreign administrations just seems to have escaped the Wizard of Oz scenario you guys have dreamed up.
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If you really think that fixing these aspects of the Internet should only be carried by other people’s efforts, and that you can just joyously continue to play with an unabridged Internet and do nothing to contribute, then you are not only naive, you are selfish.
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And what’s all this whining about Internet speeds and levels of degradation, which is still only theoretical when applied “In the Cloud” at ISPs until the industry actually does the “real life” tests? The greatest speed degradation aspect for the Australian Internet is Telstra themselves, who have technologies available today that will run our Internet at far higher speeds, and for blatant commercial reasons alone do not activate these.
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They also strangle and limit downstream ISP feeds and service levels, also limiting the overall speed of our Internet, to far higher degrees than content filtering would.
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Get some real facts folks before you go zooming off the handle about unsustantiated theories about speeds and feeds here. If the testsw over the next 4 months flop here in Australia, I will eat humble pie and admit it openly.
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In the meantime I still see no-one screaming about the massive speed degradation caused by widespread anti-virus program implementation…
Observer
December 9, 2008 at 5:39 am
No you’re wrong, law enforcement does work.
I’d much rather see this money spent on hunting down and locking away evil child abusers than on filtering the nations web browsing through a content filter with a policy that is loosely defined, and where objectionable content is defined by whichever political minority happens to hold the balance of power in Canberra.
The more of these cretins that are locked away, the better. (Pedo’s that is, not Politicians)
You have no idea how much I have contributed toward the Internet, so please don’t assume, ‘nothing’.
I look forward to you eating your humble pie.
Rich
Rich Atkinson
December 9, 2008 at 6:25 am