On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 16:08 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action > against this proposal? .. > I'm pondering the idea of automating the web trawling process to find > NC content, and then just submit all 100 million NC content URLs to > the people that maintain the blocklist...
Political problems need political solutions: the technology needed to do fast lookups on a 100 million plus string corpus already exists; all you'd do is push the price up (and probably centralise it to one nation wide solution). False positives, broken applications & induced latency are much more concerning technical aspects than filter size. The fundamental issue though, is that Australia is already censored: the debate about whether the internet should be censored is a bit misguided IMO: a better debate is that films are already censored: there isn't a strong argument why the internet /shouldn't be/, unless you consider the film censoring a problem (I do). Really, what I think we should be pushing for is: - RC material is abolished as a catch all category - Adults are required to ensure their children are not permitted access to adult only material, but the means is left to the parents to achieve. - This would apply to movies, magazines, etc. No more special treatment for canberra :) -Rob
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