Okay, so I *should* be concerned about this, in spite of what my common sense tells me.
So what can we, as web professionals (in Australia), do about it? I've signed the getup petition. What's the next step? Nedlud. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. > > > Andrew, I think you are miss-understanding how Government works: whether > something is practical or not is pretty much never a concern unless they > have to do the implementation themselves. In this case, it will be the > ISP's that are forced to implement it, not the Gov itself. > > A similar example is in progress in the UK: the Gov have decided to > introduce an 'uncrackable' bio-metric ID card for all citizens. They > have been told time and again that it will not work, but this all gets > outsourced to other companies, so if it fails then they get the blame, > and so it goes ahead, against the wishes of pretty much the whole > country. > > Mike > > > ******************************************************************* > 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] *******************************************************************
