Minister below fire: IT Specialists say web filtering won't operate
By Stuart Corner
Monday, 27 October 2008 ten:11
IT Policy - Government Tech Coverage
The Rudd Federal government arrived to electrical power previous November with two significant communications policy initiatives at the prime of its agenda: the National Broadband Network and ISP-based Net filtering. Both are in problems,
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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'll sum to 'censorship' and through the Web local community within the grounds that none of the proposed technologies will work with out seriously downgrading end-users' World wide web expertise.
Now, SAGE-AU (the Method Administrators Guild of Australia),
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President Donna Ashelford stated: "The Government's own figures indicate that all in the filtering systems trialled would impact Internet performance,
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She stressed that SAGE-AU's position on the issue of Net filtering was "based purely on the technical feasibility of an World wide web filtering solution," and not within the questions of censorship.
"Specifically SAGE-AU remains concerned that the filters tested are unable to provide an effective,
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The Authorities is also under fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded techniques in attempted to silence 1 of its members, Mark Newton, an employee of Internode, who has been 1 of the most outspoken critics with the proposed scheme on the Whirlpool online forum.
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