How the hell did this get THROUGH parliament? Welcome to the age of supression of free speech i say :)
Good to see that we're already behind on internet speeds, now we're about to be reduced by another 50% or so :)
The Government has announced its filtering pilot is going ahead, and has called for ISPs to participate. The Expression of Interest document requires ISPs to filter the ACMA blacklist, with optional extensions such as dynamic filtering.
A few things are worrying in this document. For instance, one of the criteria tested are circumvention
The Pilot will seek to the test the ease with which different filtering solutions can be circumvented and the capacity of filters to provide warnings on circumvention attempts.
Besides the technological issues here (there will be no way to prevent circumvention), this opens up worrying possibilites about the criminalization of using circumvention tools, or at least adding them to the blacklist themselves. I can tell you some other countries that do that, and I'll give you a hint - it's not the UK or Sweden. http://blog.nocleanfeed.com/
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24643380-952,00.html
NOw, these are the 4 numbers to call to make 'complains' when the filter goes in next month
Everybody please call them all day every day to complain of speed reductions :)
(02) 6277 7480
(03) 9408 0190
(03) 9650 1188
1300 131 546
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