HegeMon ([info]hege_mon) wrote,
@ 2007-11-19 15:46:00
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I have mentiones this before but... from an article:

"Senator Conroy said a mandatory "clean-feed" internet service for all homes, schools and public computers would filter out banned content, identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)."


So I called the labor information hotline (1800 103131), to get clarification on this.
Are they actually proposing manditory filtering of all australian internet connections?

Yes.

No mention of an opt-out... let alone how fucking ridiculous this is.
God, I thought they dumped this... Or at least were not saying anything because they had realised it was impossible without fucking everybody up the arse.



Fuck Labor

[edit:  I'm sure the reason nobody is kincking up a stink is that nobody actually expects them to do this... but it is realisic to think that FF will share balance with the Greens... they would happily take this as the price for something]

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[info]yak_boy
2007-11-19 05:33 am UTC (link)
Just one piece of the puzzle as to why I would never in a million years go back to calling myself a Labor supporter.

Unfortunately this policy has more or less bi-partisan support, so voting for the Libs instead ain't really going to help.

The up-side is that it is almost certainly a non-core promise, something to shore up some of the more loony religious types, before being dumped as unfeasible. Because it is 100% unfeasible, since all trials of such filtering show a marked decrease in internet performance: reliability and speed. It just doesn't make a lot of sense that a minor, hasn't been mentioned since Beazley, policy would be allowed to destroy one of the major pillars of Labor's election campaign: faster, better broadband for all Australians.

So, really it's just another example of political tomfoolery designed to play both sides of an issue at once, in order to secure votes, before the surprise revelation after the election that, no, you can't in fact have your cake and eat it too.

And you wonder why people hate politicians.

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[info]fireflyfaery
2007-11-19 10:39 am UTC (link)
But ... but ... I can't vote /Liberal/ ...

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[info]anthonybaxter
2007-11-20 11:53 am UTC (link)
They can announce it. Then the ISPs will turn on Teh Big Firewalls Of Doom. Half the Internet will disappear. All the corporates that rely on the net to do business and suddenly find themselves screwed will make sure their lawyers are on the case. The problem will go away.

It's not technically possible, unless you want to go the China route. And that doesn't work either.

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