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9:30AM Nick Broughall | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/security/Why_The_Australian_Govt_s_Internet_Filter_Won_t_Work';
Who would have thought that here, in the dying stages of 2008, we’d be looking back fondly at the Howard government’s failed $84 million porn filter? Remember how hard we laughed when it was cracked within minutes by 16-year-old Tom Wood? And how badly it failed because the very nature of the Internet means that censorship just doesn’t work? You’d think that no government would be stupid enough to make the same mistake again, wouldn’t you? Well, it just goes to show that the government’s penchant for stupidity continues to grow unabated, now that K-Rudd and his geeky sidekick Conroy are planning on forcing mandatory ISP-level filtering of all illegal content, as well as an opt-out filter for “adult” content.
Yes, no matter how ridiculous it seems to any Internet user with even the tiniest morsel of common sense, the Government believes that the Howard porn filter didn’t work because it wasn’t mandatory for all Australians. And so now we as Australians are faced with possibly the single biggest affront to our online freedoms, while the Government decides it needs to follow up on a headline-grabbing election promise that is impossible to enforce.
While 99.9 percent of Gizmodians understand that mandatory internet filtering just can’t work, for that 0.1 percent, here’s why the filter is doomed to fail, and why you should lend your voice to the online activism movement taking the government to task over their foolhardy attempts to censor the net.
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You Have Every Right To Be Angry: The Government Wants To Kill The Internet
9:30AM Nick Broughall | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/security/Why_The_Australian_Govt_s_Internet_Filter_Won_t_Work';
Who would have thought that here, in the dying stages of 2008, we’d be looking back fondly at the Howard government’s failed $84 million porn filter? Remember how hard we laughed when it was cracked within minutes by 16-year-old Tom Wood? And how badly it failed because the very nature of the Internet means that censorship just doesn’t work? You’d think that no government would be stupid enough to make the same mistake again, wouldn’t you? Well, it just goes to show that the government’s penchant for stupidity continues to grow unabated, now that K-Rudd and his geeky sidekick Conroy are planning on forcing mandatory ISP-level filtering of all illegal content, as well as an opt-out filter for “adult” content.
Yes, no matter how ridiculous it seems to any Internet user with even the tiniest morsel of common sense, the Government believes that the Howard porn filter didn’t work because it wasn’t mandatory for all Australians. And so now we as Australians are faced with possibly the single biggest affront to our online freedoms, while the Government decides it needs to follow up on a headline-grabbing election promise that is impossible to enforce.
While 99.9 percent of Gizmodians understand that mandatory internet filtering just can’t work, for that 0.1 percent, here’s why the filter is doomed to fail, and why you should lend your voice to the online activism movement taking the government to task over their foolhardy attempts to censor the net.
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12:50PM Nick Broughall | 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.
Howard’s Internet Porn Filter Nothing But An Expensive Failure, Much Like Wendell Sailor
12:50PM Nick Broughall | 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.
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8:51AM Nick Broughall | It looks like the K-Rudd express just keeps on rolling. Not content to sit back after uniting most of the country for Sorry Day last week, the Prime Minister is now looking to mobilise the government to tackle illegal internet downloads.
The Sun Herald reported over the weekend that “the Government will examine new legislative proposals being unveiled in Britain this week to target people who download films and music illegally. Internet Service Providers there might be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material.”
Unlike the RIAA’s stance of suing the hell out of any sucker that gets caught sharing music online, the proposed legislation takes a much more sensible approach to pirates with a three strikes policy, involving a warning for a first offence, a suspension of internet access for a second offence and a third offence would cancel the offenders internet access permanently.
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K-Rudd to Take On Pirates, May Believe Himself To Be A Ninja
8:51AM Nick Broughall | It looks like the K-Rudd express just keeps on rolling. Not content to sit back after uniting most of the country for Sorry Day last week, the Prime Minister is now looking to mobilise the government to tackle illegal internet downloads.
The Sun Herald reported over the weekend that “the Government will examine new legislative proposals being unveiled in Britain this week to target people who download films and music illegally. Internet Service Providers there might be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material.”
Unlike the RIAA’s stance of suing the hell out of any sucker that gets caught sharing music online, the proposed legislation takes a much more sensible approach to pirates with a three strikes policy, involving a warning for a first offence, a suspension of internet access for a second offence and a third offence would cancel the offenders internet access permanently.
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