Opposition leads to revised national broadband proposal

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5 commentsTuesday, December 30, 2008

Martin Changes Tune On Broadband Smut-Filter

Opposition leads to revised national broadband proposal

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By Hosting Suggestions (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/05/2009 - 05:19

self filtering

There is plenty of content on the internet that I don't care for, but there's plenty on radio and television (reality shows) programming that I won't watch or listen to either, because it's crap.

We're sophisticated adults and can make our own decisions.

I think of the internet as an extension of radio or television, and if I don't like what's on, I just change the channel.
Australia's new proposal in nothing short of what we call totalitarianism, and let's hope that ridiculous proposal is sent to the rubbish bin.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 14:27

Porn is profitable

Considering that porn is most probably the most looked at thing on the net and that the industry makes well over a billion dollars a year in america I highly doubt that this kind of censorship will go through.

Let's face it money talks especially in washington and i'm sure there are already a number of congressmen who's hands have been greased excuse me lobbied and I can see this dying a death.But the posts are right whenever someone wants to censor anything it's always for god's sake save the children!.

By Peter Alcivar (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 09:34

Narrow end of the wedge

Once they have the mechanisms in place to censor smut, they can censor anything, say, criticism of the government. Look at China.

By Liam Vickery (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 10:00

Aust. Government cites porn as reason to censor the net at ISPs.

Have you heard the scandal with the Australian government? They currently give away free net-filtering software for parents to 'protect their children' etc. Literally no-one I know whether they're parents or not, bothers to use this stuff. Education and healthy role models are what is the key here, not control.

This is supposedly a democracy... The proposed filter is the same as what is used in China! IMO The government is using porn as a red herring (trick, decoy) for the true purpose of control over what can and can't be said (EG. About government) on the internet, and which sites the public can and can't look at.

The trial filters ranged from slowing it down by 87% with best performing filter (most accurate) to only 2% slow down, but this one got 1 in 10 valid sites marked incorrectly and blacklisted, which will sabotage some online businesses completely... And the lag will make using the internet slower for all. We already have some of the slowest average user speeds here, and only just starting to catch up with speed. :-(

Please people, if you want to help stop this rubbish, please sign this petition:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
Currently over 90,000 signatures, and counting :-)

Thanks again WebProNews for keeping us informed and in the know!

By Richard Mongler (WPN reader) - Wed, 12/31/2008 - 02:10