The Great One For All Australian Firewall

[Harper]

hey cowboy,, get on to getup.org you can submite quistions to parlament through getup.org.

When i get my internet connection sorted out, i will

 

[Harper]

It's been a while since we have any news in here

Net filtering may not be mandatory | Australian IT

Net filtering may not be mandatory
THE Rudd Government has indicated that it may back away from its mandatory internet filtering plan.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today told a Senate estimates committee that the filtering scheme could be implemented by a voluntary industry code.

Senator Conroy's statement is a departure from the internet filtering policy Labor took into the October 2007 election to make it mandatory for ISPs to block offensive and illegal content.

Responding to questions from shadow communications minister Nick Minchin on how the government may go about imposing the internet filtering scheme, Senator Conroy said that legislation may not be required and ISPs may adopt an industry consensus to block restricted content on a voluntary basis.

“Mandatory ISP filtering would conceivably involve legislation … voluntary is available currently to ISPs,” Senator Conroy said.

“One option is potentially legislation. One other option is that it could be (on a) voluntary basis that they (ISPs) could voluntarily agree to introduce it.”

In response Senator Minchin said he had never heard of a voluntary mandatory system.

Senator Conroy responded with “well they could agree to all introduce it”.

The Government is currently spending around $300,000 on an industry filtering trial involving nine internet providers. The results of the trial, which are expected to inform its final policy, are expected to be handed to Senator Conroy in late July or early August.

The estimates committee was told that 30,000 internet users across the nine ISPs had been invited to participate in the trial.

Advisors from within the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy took on notice a question as to how many customers had agreed to sign up for the pilot.

Late today a spokesman for Senator Conroy said that the department was not allowed to reveal how many subscribers had participated in the trial due to terms of its agreement with the participating ISPs. He referred to previous statements affirming that the outcome of the trial would not be affected by the number of participants.

“The trial is examining different filtering technologies in a live internet environment. In particular, Enex Testlab will assess the performance of the filter on internet speeds. A scalability assessment will also be undertaken to assess the impact of the filtering solution on internet access speeds with higher levels of traffic and customers,” the spokesman said.

He refused to clarify the minister's comments when asked whether the Labor government was prepared to accept a voluntary ISP-level internet filtering scheme.

The committee was also told that the department had recently agreed to give internet provider Primus around $14,300 to purchase equipment that would help test how the filter would perform when large numbers of customers were involved.

The primary goals of the trial are to measure how accurately the filtering technology can perform in recognising and blocking sites on the communications watchdog's blacklist of refused classification web pages and its impact on internet speeds.

Looks like the government is moving away from this. However I am still angry with the amount of tax payiers dollars that are going into this. I guess it's just a matter of waiting until july / august

 

[Apokalipse]

So basically they're saying that ISP's can voluntarily impose it onto their customers, who don't get to choose for themselves?

 

[Harper]

Pretty much. Any one here old enough to remember KIDS.NET back in the 56k days?

 

[Harper]

It's getting a little quiet on this front. Unless some thing significant comes up, I am just going to unsticky this thread.

 

[S0ULphIRE]

HELP US!!!

If you haven't already, please sign this petition.

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The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate'. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted' site to a secret blacklist.

Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection - and that won't be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.

 

[-RockMan-]

Re: HELP US!!!

Ok, I signed it, you owe me a tube of artic silver if you have any laying aroung somewhere...

 

[Harper]

BREAKING: Conroy reveals plans to censor internet - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au

He''s back.....

Trust Conroy just to wait just in time for christmas to pop up his ugly head.
However after looking at it is, nothing has changed. Conroy is still beating his Child Pornography Drum and not really telling the rest of the world every thing else that he wants to block.

Christian Lobby wants filter net cast wider - Telco/ISP - Technology - News - iTnews.com.au
And here proof.

Still I am yet to see an ACMA blacklist. Every one is talking about it. No one really knows what's listed in it.


Thank you enigm@tic for letting me know about this link.

 

[Apokalipse]

I highly doubt they'll get the support they need for it in parliament

 

[Hefemeister]

Measures to improve safety of the internet for families | Senator Stephen Conroy | Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy