Comments on: Minchin strengthens attack on Conroy as Labor ignores cracks in Great Firewall

By: #nocleanfeed looking increasingly likely - looking out from down under

#nocleanfeed looking increasingly likely - looking out from down under — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:04:41 +0000

[...] many of us thought that the Green’s opposition to this, combined with the Coalition’s increasingly strong stance against the planned filter, would leave this legislation dead and buried: Labor wouldn’t have the numbers to get it [...]

By: HTA

HTA — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:25:46 +0000

But, bagga, they are not opposing it on moral grounds… they are saying that it will not work.

In other words, they are opposing it now for exactly the same reason they decided not to put one in themselves… how is that inconsistent?

By: bagga

bagga — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:36:35 +0000

“Net Alert enabled Australian families to install software on their home computers, which could be tailored to the needs of each individual household.”

And NetAlert was such an outstanding and popular success, wasn’t it, Senator Minchin. NOT.

Some of you folks have short memories. The Coalition have no genuine, in principle objection to high level net filtering, indeed they seriously looked at introducing it when they were in office. To their credit they accepted that it was not practical. But they only rejected it on practical grounds, not due to any lofty principle.

Make no mistake, if it were technically possible, they would not hesitate to do it. They are only opposing it now to score political points.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:39:29 +0000

The University of Michigan also has an in-depth analysis of the Green Dam software here: http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd

By: Toejam

Toejam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:42:40 +0000

Sorry – replace the curly-quotes in that URL with “straight” ones, and it should work.

Alternatively, I’ve put the link in the Website field for *this* post, so clicking on my name should work.

By: Toejam

Toejam — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:41:13 +0000

Thanks, Bob. And while you’re having a look-see through the software, you might want to occasionally refer to this: https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/A_technical_analysis_of_the_Chinese_'Green_Dam_Youth-Escort'_censorship_software

By: scomar

scomar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:27:46 +0000

“While the Chinese are conceding that ISP-level filtering is not a panacea for restricting access to online content, the Rudd Government is spending millions of dollars to pursue this very approach.”

More to the point: why the fuck are we copying the approach of one of the most opressive regimes in history?

By: Bob Bain

Bob Bain — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:38:45 +0000

The Green Dam Youth Escort Software can be downloaded from the Net. This blog (seemingly in Hong Kong) has links to the software – also linked to by Citizenlab in Toronto Canada via Twitter.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090608_chinas_green_dam_youth_escort_software/

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:49:00 +0000

Well said, Michin.

There is a feedback form on the ALP’s web site, and users are encouraged to provide positive feedback on their policies. That means that any feedback opposing the ISP filtering will not get published.

Now suppose that Labor manages to get this filtering through and all ISPs are doing it before you know it. If Labor really wants to mimic China, the next big step for them is to jail bloggers (as well as citizens who reply to them) if they criticize the government.

By: Max T

Max T — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:25:19 +0000

What will it take before these idiots in Canberra realise that Australia says a resounding “NO” to ANY form of net censorship?

There’s GOT to be a hidden agenda here.