Comments on: Spiked Online ramps up UK coverage of Aussie filter

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:54:56 +0000

“As Windows defaults to a administrator logon, he merely shut down the filter service, had he been only given user privileges he couldn’t have done it.”

Vista doesn’t, though there are ways around it, such as password grabbers that run from a boot disk and can decrypt the password file

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:06:05 +0000

thats a good point Daniel, in regards to scrapping current legislation can we add the Internet Gambling Act 2001 to the list along with allowing all other states in Australia to have the option to provide X18+ material.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:49:59 +0000

As much as I loathe and am totally against the idea of an internet filter, I wonder if the current protests against it will actually make the government back down. I think the root of the problem is the current legislation. The legislation already provides for internet censorship of content over MA15+ as well as internet filtering, so it could be argued that the government is just doing its job in enforcing existing legislation. I think we need to go back and get our totally draconian and invasive internet censorship and privacy laws scrapped. Otherwise, I have a feeling that this idea of a filter will just return to haunt us over and over, for as long as there are conservative moral crusaders and power hungry government departments around.

By: Sansha

Sansha — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:56:21 +0000

@Matthew: You’ll notice she has the typical “blinker set” on, the one where she ignores all rational points while putting in irrational ones of her own.

I read through it while trying to refrain from bashing my head against a brick when reading her responses. The upside: At least she can’t use the “you just want your porn!” against the female dissenters.

By: voracity

voracity — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:16:23 +0000

I’ve always been partial to ‘Great Barrier of Grief’.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:52:48 +0000

I was scrolling through that forum and they seem to show people against the filter as people who are not any alternative solution. if they just did their research they would see the number of people offering other solutions such as; PC’s in the family room, signing up with ISP’s that already offer a ‘clean feed’, installing Net Alert and extra money for police to use against Child Porn. However, i’m still not convinced that we had a problem to begin with, there is no need to implement this filter, it’s just not nessecary.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:12:46 +0000

Jesus christ, reading that AWO forum, that Deborah Robinson doesn’t really care much for actual facts or any real debate. Then the last post one of the admins is comparing the “panic” over the Y2K bug and the filter.

By: Sam D

Sam D — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:10:20 +0000

Three great articles, especially Kerry’s. I hope that CAPPE http://www.cappe.edu.au/ regrets hiring Clive Hamilton.

By: Big Pete

Big Pete — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:17:28 +0000

@Sansha
Refering to the AWO forum and the 16 yo filter cracker, It’s my understanding he didn’t crack the filter. As Windows defaults to a administrator logon, he mealy shut down the filter service, had he been only given user privileges he couldn’t have done it.

By: Sansha

Sansha — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:06:59 +0000

http://forums.australianwomenonline.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=2477#p2477

Meanwhile, some Australian women with their own websites and a professed “I understand how the internet works and I support the ISP filter” just don’t get it.