Minister beneath fire: IT Specialists say internet filtering will not function ,
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By Stuart Corner
Monday, 27 October 2008 10:11
IT Coverage - Govt Tech Coverage
The Rudd Federal government arrived to electrical power last November with two key communications policy initiatives with the prime of its agenda: the Countrywide Broadband Network and ISP-based Web filtering. Each are in difficulty, and the guy in charge of the two, Stephen Conroy, is copping the flack.
The Government's ISP-level filtering regime is coming in for severe criticism from civil libertarians around the grounds that it's going to sum to 'censorship' and from the Web neighborhood to the grounds that none from the proposed technologies will work without having seriously downgrading end-users' World wide web expertise.
Now, SAGE-AU (the Program Administrators Guild of Australia), a not-for-profit specialist organisation representing method administrators in Australia - has additional its voice of authority for the discussion claiming that filtering is impractical and accusing Conroy's workers of utilizing underhand strategies in opposition to 1 of its members.
President Donna Ashelford mentioned: "The Government's own figures indicate that all from the filtering systems trialled would impact Net performance,
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She stressed that SAGE-AU's position within the issue of World wide web filtering was "centered purely within the technical feasibility of an World wide web filtering solution," and not to the questions of censorship.
"Specifically SAGE-AU remains concerned that the filters tested are unable to provide an effective,
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The Govt is also below fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded strategies in attempted to silence one particular of its members,
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