Censorship/security via filtering is a growing commercial opportunity that certain big IT companies are eager to get a piece of and, many are already actively lobbying for or privately supporting the government plans to legislate mandatory ISP-level filtering. [click to continue...]
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Conroy mentions BitTorrents
Full credit to Senator Stephen Conroy for being the bravest man on the Internet, declaring BitTorrent filtering a possibility.Say what you will about Senator Conroy’s Internet filtering plans – described by some as like trying to “boil the ocean” – but the man has Cajon’s. [click to continue...]
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ISP Internet Filtering for Senator Conroy
Now unless Senator Conroy has Santa’s elves working overtime, in the words of The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan, tell him he’s dreamin’. Ideally, a participating ISP would provide a filtering solution to a sample of their customer base.
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Net censorship plan backlash
Separately, in Senate question time today, Greens senator Scott Ludlam accused the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, of misleading the public by falsely claiming his mandatory censorship plan was similar to that already in place in Sweden, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. 
Grilled by a Senate Estimates committee in October, Senator Conroy said Britain, Sweden, Canada and New Zealand had all implemented similar filtering systems.
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The Government’s attempts to silence criticism of content filtering sparks outrage.
The newly appointed shadow broadband minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has voiced his appall that a member of Senator Conroy’s office had tried to curb severely critical comments made by Internode network engineer Mark Newton regarding the government’s Internet content filtering scheme. (PDF)
This morning, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a policy advisor at Senator Conroy’s office had sent an e-mail to the Internet Industry Association (IIA) expressing concern that Internode’s Mark Newton, as an IIA member, was behaving “irresponsibly” with regard to criticisms he made of Conroy’s controversial content filtering scheme on the popular Whirlpool broadband forum.
“I am appalled that a member of Senator Conroy’s staff is apparently trying to bully the IIA over this matter,” Minchin told Computerworld.
Internode’s Newton, speaking to Computerworld, said the move by the member of Conroy’s department to silence his criticism was inappropriate and an attempt to curb free speech.
IIA CEO Peter Coroneos said the association is a conduit for information on the content filtering scheme between industry and Conroy’s office, and did not want to be involved in the debate.
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