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Australian Internet filter goes ahead regardless
Topic Started: May 30 2010, 07:02 PM (462 Views)
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MINISTER for Communications Stephen Conroy has vowed to push on with his controversial internet filtering scheme, despite a barrage of criticism.

Senator Conroy told The Sun-Herald that internet advocacy groups such as GetUp! were ''deliberately misleading'' the Australian public about the scheme, which will refuse classification to illegal and socially unacceptable web pages. The legislation, which was expected to be passed before Parliament rises in June, has been delayed until the second half of the year while the government fine-tunes it.

The government's $128.8 million Cyber Safety policy includes forcing internet service providers to block access to a secret blacklist of website pages identified as ''refused classification'' by the Australian police.

Web pages will be nominated for blacklisting by Australian internet users who come across illegal or ''unacceptable'' websites.

''This is a policy that will be going ahead,'' Senator Conroy said. ''We are still consulting on the final details of the scheme. But this policy has been approved by 85 per cent of Australian internet service providers, who have said they would welcome the filter, including Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and iinet.''

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that 72 per cent of Australian households have home internet access and more than 2 million children regularly use computers.

The scheme has attracted broad opposition from communications experts, search-engine companies Google and Yahoo!, the federal opposition and members of the nation's intellectual elite.

Critics claim the policy will not result in any meaningful dent in the availability of harmful internet content, will create significant freedom-of-speech issues and will be prone to abuse by politicians.

''The scope of filtered content is so broad that it could block content that would inform political and social debate,'' Google spokeswoman Lucinda Barlow said.

Former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has also condemned the proposed filtering scheme as a ''white elephant''. ''This system will not be effective,'' Mr Turnbull said. ''This policy will run the risk of false impressions [of security], when there should be parental responsibility.''

Executive director of GetUp! Brett Solomon said the Prime Minister should step in to ditch the scheme. ''The government would be better off developing policies to ensure the privacy of Australians is better safeguarded rather than pursuing the filter. This should be a promise that Kevin Rudd should break.''

GetUp! national director Simon Sheikh said a online petition by the activists had received support from 120,000 people and raised $100,000 to stop the legislation. An additional opinion poll by research firm Galaxy showed 86 per cent felt that parents, not the government, should have the primary responsibility for protecting information on the internet.

''Consistently the Australian people are saying that they don't want it,'' Mr Sheikh said.

But Bernadette McMenamin of the child protection group Child Wise said it was 100 per cent behind filtering illegal material. ''Sites are going to be blocked that should be blocked, and it's absolutely essential every parent is taught about the dangers of the internet.''

The Australian Privacy Foundation, however, said the cost of the filter would be better directed to more internet education.

Yet Senator Conroy said ''blocking material is not considered to be censorship''.

''This filter is really not changing much, except that the blacklist of website pages will be mandatory.''

The fourth Cyber Security Awareness Week starts next week to help raise awareness of internet privacy issues.
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*clap clap clap* gotta love how idiots always make the final decision on everything, we are headed towards a world of lag and fuking terrible decisions on whats allowed and what isn't allowed.

GG to all those fukers who voted for Krudd
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Where am I going to get my porn from now?


What? We were all thinking it.
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DoctorQuincyME
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Where am I going to get my porn from now?


What? We were all thinking it.
Even worse... porn torrents,gone
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im hoping my fav torrent sites don't get hit but either way, this is a filter, it doesn't stop access, just annoying cos you have to access it slower.
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Censoring the internet isn't censorship? WUT

This is ridiculous, hopefully Rudd will get the boot before this shit goes through.

I hear they have some internet out californy way.
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If you block stuff the people will just get it from somewhere else.

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Stop FUCKING making the excuse we have to "protect the children". It's bloodly digusting. What about all the unsigned bands or indie film makers who upload on torrent sites to get their name out there?!.


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It's about bloody time parents started thinking of their children, and started being accountable for the media they are allowed access too.
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@adin: most parents today are too lazy to care about what there children do and look up. We live in a time were parents would rather dope there kids up with ritalin then be bothered to discipline them.
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Ho hum, should have implemented it in june.
Then the backlash would hound Rudd out before the next election.
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