Minister under fire: IT Specialists say internet filtering will not operate
By Stuart Corner
Monday,
Office 2007 Key, 27 October 2008 10:11
IT Policy - Federal government Tech Policy
The Rudd Govt arrived to strength last November with two main communications coverage initiatives in the leading of its agenda: the Nationwide Broadband Network and ISP-based Web filtering. The two are in trouble, and also the man in charge of each,
Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, Stephen Conroy,
Office 2007 Product Key, is copping the flack.
The Government's ISP-level filtering regime is coming in for extreme criticism from civil libertarians within the grounds that it's going to volume to 'censorship' and through the Internet community within the grounds that none in the proposed technologies will function devoid of seriously downgrading end-users' Internet encounter.
Now, SAGE-AU (the Method Administrators Guild of Australia),
Windows 7 Activation, a not-for-profit specialist organisation representing method administrators in Australia - has extra its voice of authority towards the discussion claiming that filtering is impractical and accusing Conroy's workers of using underhand strategies in opposition to one of its members.
President Donna Ashelford said: "The Government's own figures indicate that all of the filtering systems trialled would impact Internet performance, as well as availability of legitimate services to varying degrees."
She stressed that SAGE-AU's position within the issue of Web filtering was "primarily based purely around the technical feasibility of an 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, reliable filtering solution with the performance required for modern broadband connections."
The Authorities is also below fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded strategies in attempted to silence a single of its members, Mark Newton, an employee of Internode,
Microsoft Office 2007, who has been one in the most outspoken critics of the proposed scheme around the Whirlpool online forum.
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