Comments on: Why the Tasmanian filtering trial is a failure

By: Internet censorship isn't the solution - sw'as

Internet censorship isn't the solution - sw'as — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:10:57 +0000

[...] – The solution is ineffective. None of the proposed technologies have performed well in testing. In fact, they’ve performed so [...]

By: Antonia

Antonia — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:45:45 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one going insane from this stupid idea by our government. If your like me and curious as to why the government is so damn adamant with going ahead with ISP-level filtering even after it’s own feasibility report stated it was not economically or technically viable then I guess you just have to blame Steven Fielding. At the moment the ALP requires Steven Fielding’s support to pass bills through the senate. Without this balance of power the coalition and greens senator would block majority of their proposals. For the ALP this decision is a matter of political safety, which makes me think they’re going to go for it even if it means fudging reports, bullying ISP’s and arguing that we’re “saving the children” even though we all know there’s no way it can be done!

By: smith

smith — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:16:39 +0000

ISP filtering doubleplus ungood

By: No Clean Feed Mr Rudd, please consider the alternatives « Matthew Gain’s Blog

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:23:00 +0000

[...] the acts of a tiny minority should not impede the access to, or the performance of the internet (filtering may slow internet speeds by up to 75%), for the vast [...]

By: John

John — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:09:55 +0000

Does Chairman Rudd intend to break election promises of a faster & cheaper internet for Australians?

By: John

John — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:15:36 +0000

Most people want to protect children but that’s not what this is about so it makes a good premise to hide behind. Chairman Kevin seems too close to China. Though I & most children could get around this filter, with a slower & dearer internet I & probably many others just won’t bother with it, which won’t be good for the economy or the ISPs. I’ve heard a lot of ‘they’ve got Filtering in Europe’, when a more honest comparison would be China. I would urge everyone to write to lots of pollies & ISPs.

By: Colin Kirkness

Colin Kirkness — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:15:46 +0000

OMFG conroy u dumbass it will not work you should be spending money on giving us faster internet speeds australia has one of the slowest internet connections in the world we are even behind countries that are considereed third world i could bypass ur filter in minutes all it would do is slow down my speed argh if u wont to stop anything stop torrents thats where all the child porn and adult content is being transfered there will be riots if this comes to pass u cannot affectivly filter the internet do u want us to become like china where the govemement can block anything they want i along with 98 percent of australia are against this and the other 2 percent dont reliesehow this will affect our connections

By: My Brother’s Keeper. : Sean the Blogonaut

My Brother’s Keeper. : Sean the Blogonaut — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:00:50 +0000

[...] Proof that this is a moral crusade is in the lengths to which he will spin the latest findings on a trial of the proposal. – here [...]

By: Will

Will — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:25:47 +0000

I’ve found absolutely no evidence in any of the proposal that this plan will ever work from a technical standpoint, ISP’s are shooting it down in flames left right and centre and the majority of the public detest the idea. It’s patronising and offensive that Conroy (and by extension for doing nothing to stop it, Kevin F*&king Rudd) has even considered the idea.

By: How to Be A Systems Engineer » Blog Archive » Live Filtering Pilot Another Lab Test: DBCDE

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:26:00 +0000

[...] would hope not, the abject failure of the Tasmanian trials are something they’d not want to repeat, but they are likely to get some good results on this [...]