Aussies sanitise the net

[Troll]

I can see both sides of this .... but expect UK NL to follow suit

An Australian government plan to filter the Internet Wednesday drew criticism from privacy advocates who said it represented the start of state censorship.

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, a member of the Labor team which ousted conservative prime minister John Howard in a November election, wants filters in place to shield children from online porn and violence.

Under the plan, Internet service providers would provide feeds filtered free of pornography and other inappropriate material to houses and schools.

Conroy has rejected criticism that the move will debase the freedom of the world wide web and represents a step towards the kind of Internet censorship in place in China where sites are regularly blocked and cyberdissidents arrested.

"Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the Internet is like going down the Chinese road," he told national radio on Monday.

[ferret]

No chance of this working. How long will it take for ISPs to decide a site has disallowed content and add it to their filters? New sites spring up all the time especially in the pr0n industry. Load of twaddle.

Typical politicians attention grabbing statement. The reality of his suggestion shows he knows nothing about the subject.

[MrRobin]

No chance of this working. How long will it take for ISPs to decide a site has disallowed content and add it to their filters? New sites spring up all the time especially in the pr0n industry. Load of twaddle.

How does this work in China, then?

[AtW]

How does this work in China, then?

They put you in prison if you disobey, or publicly execute you.

HTH

[Troll]

I think this would be pretty easy to implement... you start off with a deny all status & then announce that only 'approved' sites will be let through (& naturally 'approval' requires pre inspection which carries a government fee... aka a licence)
easily sold to public - family safe tick box on site.. lucratively & easily done.

Very hard to counter argue - and not be labelled a perve for exposing little kids to filth

..more worryingly approval can easily be withdrawn should you pee the censors (goverment) off

[AtW]

And how you are going to police secure requests that will go to proxy servers outside of Australia that will get forbidden content? Banning SSL would kill ecommerce - possible to do in Iran, but hardly in Australia.

[DimPrawn]

Who cares.

Australia is the arse end of nowhere in the world anyway.

[tay]

Who cares.

Australia is the arse end of nowhere in the world anyway.

No it isnt! Thats NZ.. dont give our claim to fame to those dirty convicts!!

But Australia have a Labour got now.. they are fooked.

[Churchill]

A way to circumvent this would be to use UDP packets and an "Underground" browser supported by servers abroad that translate the relevant IP packets...

AtW, I may just have a market for SKA...

[ferret]

I think this would be pretty easy to implement... you start off with a deny all status & then announce that only 'approved' sites will be let through (& naturally 'approval' requires pre inspection which carries a government fee... aka a licence)
easily sold to public - family safe tick box on site.. lucratively & easily done.

Very hard to counter argue - and not be labelled a perve for exposing little kids to filth

..more worryingly approval can easily be withdrawn should you pee the censors (goverment) off

Hardly easy to implement. So anyone wanting to make their own site to share photos or blog or anything would not be able to host their own, having to use a government approved service? Very unlikely to happen in our society.

Also all the big web hosts (1 and 1, fasthosts et al) would probably go under as the volume of UK hosted sites would fall by about 99% as all hobby sites would go under as they would not want to pay a fee / comply with regulation. Plus you have the problem of vetting all of the sites that have been verified.

Nice Trolling but if you believe this you are quite clearly as deranged as the Australian Government.