The K-Rudd Government has been having a big week this week. On top of looking at getting ISPs to tackle piracy, and introducing an energy rating system for household gadgets, they’ve also decided to declare the obvious, in that John Howard’s NetAlert Internet Porn Filter was a complete waste of taxpayers money.
Of course, that was obvious to anybody with a clue when it was announced, and even more obvious when 16 year old Tom Wood hacked it within 30 minutes of it going live. But now it’s official, and the actual stats show just how colossal a failure it was.
Ben
Friday, February 22, 2008 at 1:34 PMWell put.
Matt
Friday, February 22, 2008 at 2:31 PMIt will cost 5 times that amount for the government to attempt to stop piracy and the money will go to the exact same place, down the toilet. Heck, put the money into forcing labels into marketing more realistic prices for cds and dvds, like what has happened in China, rather than the 20-30 dollars we shell out each time.
Nequam
Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 11:04 AMWell I would have to say I would prefer to have a “useless” porn filter than complete and utter censorship like what the labor proposal is now.
Matt if they get this through parliment we will be more like China than you would expect. Scary stuff.
Stew
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 12:16 PM“The current goverment needs to learn from this incredible misuse of funds and resources and come to the realisation that they cannot control the Internet. And that goes for trying to force ISPs to tackle piracy as well.”
AMEN, BROTHER!
Richie
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 5:12 PMKrudd will be a total disappointment when it comes to the internet (and most other things it seems).
Tristan
Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 2:14 AMWow Richie, 10 months down the track and your spot on. Look at the Rudd Government is trying to do with the internet now. Makes the Howard Gov’s attempt almost look good.
“The current goverment needs to learn from this incredible misuse of funds and resources and come to the realisation that they cannot control the Internet.”
If only Rudd had taken note of this.