linkin
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I can't understand how anyone can think internet filters are good, let alone useful or effective. They say it's for protecting children which it fails to do completely.
Firstly, i would like to keep this thread as politically free as possible. This is a discussion about Internet Filtering, not politics.
Anyway, if you've been keeping up with the issue, you might find this funny. A satirical website, www.stephenconroy.com.au was taken down because of one reason or another. anyway they changed the URL and it's back up.
There's a video i quite like about the issue, seems they are abusing their power before they even have it:
[YT]6-CvRSIgxU8[/YT]
There are many reason why filtering does not work. I'll keep it short and sweet as most of us know the technical reasons why.
1) Doesn't stop the use of email and P2P to distribute illegal material (their main concern is CP)
2) Slows down speeds up to 87%. Consider that the majority of Australia is on 8 Mbps internet.
3) Blacklists are ineffective, new sites are cropping up all the time.
4) Proxies. We all know how they work or at least what they do.
5) Any 8-year-old child with any technical knowledge knows how to bypass a filter. Ironic, because these kids are exactly who they are trying to "protect"
6) Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. How long before the filter is abused, if it goes ahead, to stop discussions of issues such as Anorexia, Euthenasia (spelling?) and Terrorism, as well as many others.
7) Content that is legal to view, create, own and distribute will be illegal and filtered with the proposed scheme (such as regular pornography)
8) A 17 year old student demonstrated how the filter could be bypassed in a matter of seconds.
9) Even if you have no children, the filter will be mandatory. the government would force all ISP's to use the filter.
10) In many polls, over the internet, phone and newspapers, about 95% of Australian were opposed to the filter entirely.
11) Freedom of speech! The internet is not something you can just deny someone access to. Nor can you censor it!
12) Filtering at the end-user level is much more effective as it allows parents to control access to the internet, and lets anyone without kids access whatever they want.
I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on internet filtering, and why or why not you support/condemn it.
Personally I condemn it to hell and back. It's flawed, expensive and detrimental to the internet and Australian public in general.
Firstly, i would like to keep this thread as politically free as possible. This is a discussion about Internet Filtering, not politics.
Anyway, if you've been keeping up with the issue, you might find this funny. A satirical website, www.stephenconroy.com.au was taken down because of one reason or another. anyway they changed the URL and it's back up.
There's a video i quite like about the issue, seems they are abusing their power before they even have it:
[YT]6-CvRSIgxU8[/YT]
There are many reason why filtering does not work. I'll keep it short and sweet as most of us know the technical reasons why.
1) Doesn't stop the use of email and P2P to distribute illegal material (their main concern is CP)
2) Slows down speeds up to 87%. Consider that the majority of Australia is on 8 Mbps internet.
3) Blacklists are ineffective, new sites are cropping up all the time.
4) Proxies. We all know how they work or at least what they do.
5) Any 8-year-old child with any technical knowledge knows how to bypass a filter. Ironic, because these kids are exactly who they are trying to "protect"
6) Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. How long before the filter is abused, if it goes ahead, to stop discussions of issues such as Anorexia, Euthenasia (spelling?) and Terrorism, as well as many others.
7) Content that is legal to view, create, own and distribute will be illegal and filtered with the proposed scheme (such as regular pornography)
8) A 17 year old student demonstrated how the filter could be bypassed in a matter of seconds.
9) Even if you have no children, the filter will be mandatory. the government would force all ISP's to use the filter.
10) In many polls, over the internet, phone and newspapers, about 95% of Australian were opposed to the filter entirely.
11) Freedom of speech! The internet is not something you can just deny someone access to. Nor can you censor it!
12) Filtering at the end-user level is much more effective as it allows parents to control access to the internet, and lets anyone without kids access whatever they want.
I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on internet filtering, and why or why not you support/condemn it.
Personally I condemn it to hell and back. It's flawed, expensive and detrimental to the internet and Australian public in general.
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