Comments on: Australian Government’s attempt to gag ISP filter critic backfires

By: ACS Report on Australia’s ISP Filtering Scheme « The Coding Bone

ACS Report on Australia’s ISP Filtering Scheme « The Coding Bone — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:37:28 +0000

[...] its announcement in 2008, the proposed scheme has been met with some fairly heavy criticism from the international ICT [...]

By: denbeigh2000

denbeigh2000 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:12:24 +0000

This filter is undoubtedly childish and impractical.

Surely it would be a good idea to have a warning on the front page, similar to pornography sites?

“This site contains explicit images/language… blah blah blah”

Google has a safesearch feature, which can block explicit images/text. Wouldn’t this be the optimal alternative, instead of ridiculous censorship?

By: austroweb

austroweb — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:30:07 +0000

well, what do we do?

does somebody have a plan?

if not, like julie, i will also have to travel north to find freedom like a runaway slave.

By: Australian Family Association happy to block 3% of innocent websites - Somebody Think Of The Children

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:05:25 +0000

[...] our expertise? We have been but the Government has their hands in their ears and is telling experts to zip it. Stay up to date with censorship issues affecting Australia by subscribing to my RSS feed. Click [...]

By: Conroy chucks tantrum as opposition to filtering increases - Somebody Think Of The Children

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:43:21 +0000

[...] “Accept some debate“? You tried to stop Mark Newton from even criticising the plan when all of his concerns were [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:47:06 +0000

If this comes in, I will seek asylum in a free country. Even though I love Australia, the state of affairs at the moment show that dictators have taken over and are taking everything away from us. They have no concern about what the people want, only what they want.

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:12:44 +0000

Surely the Minister should face some action over this?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:53:34 +0000

I just saw a related article in Fairfax’s WAToday.com.au. Seems that *this* kind of censoring has made coverage. Pity it had to come out this way but it definitely would make people more aware of the situation.

By: Stevian

Stevian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:41 +0000

When I sent my personalised letters to various representatives (as suggested by No Clean Feed,http://nocleanfeed.com/takeaction.html) I included my name and address, it seems this may not have been a good idea. I am now having nightmares about being marched into a Gulag, the Government must be trying to find a use for those migrant dentention centres

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:17:02 +0000

Wow, that pretty amazing. So not only will the filter make you feel like you’re living China, Conroy has gone an extra step by trying to silence any critics. Maybe he can send out the tanks for any future protests. Has Conroy set a precedent here? I’ve never heard of a politician taking this step before. I wasn’t going to write a letter to the Senator as I thought a letter to my local member would be enough, however this has changed everything. I’m just going to have to assume that when I do, his staffers will ring up my employer to threaten my job.