Internode will not participate in live filtering trial
Managing 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...
Interview: Internode’s Mark Newton talks filtering
Ben Grubb (who copped a bit of flack for his interview with Tim Marshall) has interviewed Internode network engineer Mark Newton. Mark is the guy who confirmed our suspicions that there wouldn’t be any way to completely opt-out of ISP filtering. In this rather in depth interview, Mark notes that ISPs not taking part in...
Filters mandatory for all Australians: DBCDE
Computer World is the first media outlet to question the Government’s ISP filtering opt-out policy. Two weeks ago Internode network engineer Mark Newton confirmed there would be two black lists and adults would only be able to opt-out from the list containing inappropriate content for children. They would not be able to opt-out of the...
Internode and IINet slam mandatory filtering plan, will cripple broadband
It wasn’t too long back that Stephen Conroy was bragging about ISPs becoming flexible to his arguments for introducing mandatory ISP filtering. They had SEEN the LIGHT! We all knew that was a pile of horse shit. Now two of Australia’s largest ISPs, IINet and Internode, have publicly slammed the plan. John Lindsay, Carrier Relations...
