Internode will not participate in live filtering trial
November 13, 2008 – 5:14 pmManaging director of Internode, Simon Hackett, says his ISP isn’t intending to participate in the government’s live filtering trial. Hackett says doing so would just dignify a badly flawed policy with implied approval.
“The point here is that it doesn’t matter how well the trials work, mandatory filtering for the entire population via a secret blacklist is not in the spirit or the practice anyone expected as the outcome of the official reason for all of this (an optional ‘clean’ feed for protecting children)
And worse, as we all appreciate here (don’t we?), mandatory filtering is trivial to circumvent and its impossible to block that circumvention. So the entire sum being proposed to be spent on technical solutions is being entirely wasted. Not slightly wasted, entirely.”
Hackett wants his taxes spent on education and better resourcing for the Australian Federal Police. Likewise.
Earlier this week managing director of iiNet, Michael Malone, announced he would sign up to the “ridiculous” trials to show the government that their filter would not work.
5 Responses to “Internode will not participate in live filtering trial”
Awesome news! I knew I chose the right ISP
The more backlash and criticism of this proposal the better.
By Eliot on Nov 13, 2008
Never was a truer word spoken. All hail Simon Hackett
By Jason on Nov 13, 2008
I’m just wondering if iiNet’s results for the live trial would be ignored by Conroy and co. if they were negative (as I imagine they would be) because of the comments Michael Malone has publicly made. Would Conroy state that iiNet deliberately caused their trial to fail because they’re against the filtering? Somehow I wouldn’t put it past him.
By Matthew on Nov 14, 2008
YAY!, Finally some people with weight are agreeing that it is a stupid idea.
By Nick on Nov 14, 2008
sign me up Simon, Optus is useless these days, so once it gets filtering snail mail will be quicker
By Jason on Nov 19, 2008