Minister beneath fire: IT Pros say web filtering won't operate
By Stuart Corner
Monday, 27 October 2008 ten:11
IT Policy - Authorities Tech Coverage
The Rudd Federal government came to power previous November with two key communications policy initiatives in the leading of its agenda: the National Broadband Network and ISP-based World wide web filtering. Both are in difficulty,
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The Government's ISP-level filtering regime is coming in for serious criticism from civil libertarians to the grounds that it's going to quantity to 'censorship' and in the Internet neighborhood around the grounds that none of the proposed technologies will function without having seriously downgrading end-users' Net experience.
Now,
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President Donna Ashelford explained: "The Government's own figures indicate that all of the filtering systems trialled would impact Net performance, as well as availability of legitimate services to varying degrees."
She stressed that SAGE-AU's position around the issue of World wide web filtering was "based purely on 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, reliable filtering solution with the performance required for modern broadband connections."
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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