Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering

daria42 writes "The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers — Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett — have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why ISP-level filtering won't work. Critics of the policy also say that users will have no way to know what's being filtered."

Well, maybe we know...

[SEWilco]

Zero comments. Maybe this post is being filtered in Australia.

Re:Well, maybe we know...

[Anonymous Coward]

That can't be true - I'm posting from Austr

Re:Well, maybe we know...

[jamesh]

I don't think Slashdot will be filtered... according to the summary:

"The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers -- Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett -- have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why excellent and much looked forward to ISP-level filtering will work exactly as designed. Critics of the policy have now come to their senses and have also put forward their full support."

So as you can see we have nothing to worry about.

Re:Well, maybe we know...

[master5o1]

So posting from Australia is like saying candlejack. You either die or don't comple

Re:It will start with Child Porn...

[philspear]

The way that this is done with films, books, etc, is that everything must be reviewed before it can be made available to the public. Consider how fucked the internet would be if they applied that standard.

I'd be interested in getting a position with the australian government in monitoring the internet, specifically the porn portion. I have extensive experience.

Re:This government is really naive

[jonaskoelker]

the aug steyr, it's a semi/fully automatic assault rifle,

You don't need to explain to us what the aug steyr is. It was in counterstrike.

Re:Well, maybe we know...

[Jesus_666]

I'm posting from Australia as well and the situation here is PERFECTLY FINE. Internet access in Australia is FAST AND CHEAP as it is, but now they're filtering all kinds of SITES NORMAL PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO VISIT ANYWAY. I also suspect they LEAVE INTACT all outgoing data so as to LET EVERYONE ENJOY THEIR FREE SPEECH.

Seriously, what kind of EXTREMELY LIKABLE AND INTELLIGENT government comes up with something like that? Australia is really looking more and more like AN UTOPIA. I'm going back to THE OUTBACK as fast as I can. DON'T LOOK FOR ME, I'M GOING TO STAY OUT THERE FOR A WHILE.