Andrew R wrote:
And adding my 2 cents worth…
This is part of the grand conspiracy. The panic about porn / bomb
instructions on the web knee jerk is a smoke screen. What the government
wants to do is control how it’s citizen access media and hence ideas.
This is part of the Great Conspiracy Theory (tm)
Don't ascribe to "malice" that which can be more easily explained by
"mistake". I'll take ill-informed cock-up over conspiracy any day, as I
don't believe Australian politicians have the nous to manage a grand
conspiracy.
They love the traditional mass media because it’s easy to control and
run by cooperation that have a vested interest keeping the old
paradigms. They hate the web, email, etc because it’s hard to control
and hence subvert how ideas spread. Goverements all over the place have
been trying to do this for a long time.
They hate traditional media too, when they ask hard questions.
It’s stupid, won’t work and is going to cost us millions. What will
happen is lots of folks will subscript to OS encrypted tunnelling
services. The outcome will be lots of encrypted web traffic which will
be a lot worse if you’re trying to track the activities of bomb makers
and paedophiles. And it is going to chew up money that would be more
productively spend improving the speed of the infrastructure (and not
slowing it down).
Ah, something we can agree on - it won't work and it will cost $$$$$
This is nearly a dumb that idea that Mr Keating had of sell exclusive
rights to provide Australian net access to Microsoft!
Did he really? Do you have any cites for this?
Cheers
Mark Harris
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