2008SEP201719
"... Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software ..."
Hosted by LUV (Linux Users Victoria) & others at The Hub, Melbourne, 2008SEP20.
Dale Clapperton - Electronic Frontiers Australia
Colin Jacobs and Dale Clapperton spoke on Internet "clean feed" currently under development in Australia. You can read more about it here.
some weeks later...
Australia - Welcome to the Orwell continent
"... The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy ..."
In September on "Software Freedom Day" which I attended, I happened to catch the tail-end of a talk by Colin Jacobs ~ www.efa.org.au/about/board/colin-jacobs/ and Dale Clapperton of "Electronic Frontier Australia" discussing the "Clean feed" testing mentioned in the article. The description of the filtering tests was along the lines of - "500 odd test sites, on an internal network (effectively at Ethernet speed)" didn't inspire confidence in the approach. Access speed will be a real issue. I'm not sure this implementation will be workable.
You can read a description of the blocking in the report, "Mandatory ISP Internet Blocking Plan" here ~ www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/
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2008SEP201719
"... Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to tell people about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software ..."
Hosted by LUV (Linux Users Victoria) & others at The Hub, Melbourne, 2008SEP20.
Dale Clapperton - Electronic Frontiers Australia
Colin Jacobs and Dale Clapperton spoke on Internet "clean feed" currently under development in Australia. You can read more about it here.
some weeks later...
Australia - Welcome to the Orwell continent
"... The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy ..."
In September on "Software Freedom Day" which I attended, I happened to catch the tail-end of a talk by Colin Jacobs ~ www.efa.org.au/about/board/colin-jacobs/ and Dale Clapperton of "Electronic Frontier Australia" discussing the "Clean feed" testing mentioned in the article. The description of the filtering tests was along the lines of - "500 odd test sites, on an internal network (effectively at Ethernet speed)" didn't inspire confidence in the approach. Access speed will be a real issue. I'm not sure this implementation will be workable.
You can read a description of the blocking in the report, "Mandatory ISP Internet Blocking Plan" here ~ www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/
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