And mine..... (two cents that is..) The Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) website has a section on their website on this topic: http://wipa.org.au/story/24 and they will be conducting discussion sessions to formulate a response to the proposal by Senator Conroy.
It's a ridiculous and absurd proposal that we don't want or need. Let's stop it by making our voices heard. ShannonG ********************************************************************* WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST ********************************************************************* From: Andrew R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:36:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia And adding my 2 cents worth... This is part of the grand conspiracy. The panic about porn / bomb instruct ions on the web knee jerk is a smoke screen. What the government wants to d o is control how it's citizen access media and hence ideas. They love the traditional mass media because it's easy to control and run by cooperati on 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 l ong time. It's stupid, won't work and is going to cost us millions. What will h appen 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 imp roving the speed of the infrastructure (and not slowing it down). This is nearly a dumb that idea that Mr Keating had of sell exclusive righ ts to provide Australian net access to Microsoft!Andrew See the most popular videos on the web http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/115454061/direct/01/ ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed, and may contain secret, confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this e-mail in error or are aware that you are not authorised to have it, you MUST NOT use or copy it, or disclose its contents to any person. If you do any of these things, you may be sued or prosecuted. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
