Nedlud, My understanding is that as long as the majority of elected members of parliament support this proposition, it will be able to pass through, even though it is technically unfeasible.
The Liberals and the Greens are very opposed to this legislation, and it cannot be passed in the Senate without the support of either the Liberals or the Greens. I am hoping that the live testing/trial that will be carried out early next year just shows that this is technically unfeasible. It is quite stupid to be filtering the internet for everyone in Australia, when it is much simpler to be done on each individual PC through the use of software as the previous Liberal government proposed. This is a step backwards in my opinion, and it has finally started to hit the wider community, however they are pushing the child porn case, and as such, anyone seen opposing this legislation, is in fact supporting child porn being freely available. In my day to day surfing of the net, I have never once come across child pornography, you only seem to be able to find it if you go searching for it in my opinion. So this legislation to enforce filtering is overkill. Andrew 2008/11/27 nedlud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (Hoping this thread isn't off topic) > > Isn't this all a storm in a tea cup? Last time I checked, Australia > was still a democracy, and while *somebody* must have voted for > Conroy, we (Australians) still get a say. > > But aren't there some serious practical barriers to this? Would ISP's > seriously get behind this? Is it even technically feasible to do > properly? And will the internet surfing population of Australia get > behind it? We have all kinds of talk in the press about getting a high > speed network, while at the same time there is talk of this filtering > guff *slowing* the our net by up to 80%. > > What I'm saying is: I don't know how much I care about this issue. > Yes, it's shocking that anyone would try this in Australia, but aren't > it's chances of getting off the ground about zero? > > Nedlud. > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Anthony Ziebell >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Oh, it's certainly not spam. It's been all over news, whirlpool, everywhere. >> >> Yes, it's definitely real. I feel ashamed of being Australian right there. >> >> -- >> Blake Haswell >> http://www.blakehaswell.com/ | http://blakehaswell.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
