On 2009-Dec-16 15:45:51 +1100, private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com> wrote: >No doubt press commentary is worth a look ( see >http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/net-censorship-move-a-smokescreen-expert-20091216-kw7d.html
When I voted, the associated poll was >>90% against. The timing of the legislation (just before the next election) suggests that if the Gov't gets re-elected, it will claim to have a mandate for it. Also http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/15/2772467.htm >Dealing, as this proposal does, with solely 'RC' content Except that there will almost certainly be collateral fallout and, AFAIK, the blacklist will remain secret (which differs from film and book censorship). > I also suspect that I have less faith >in both the technical structure of the proposed filtering, and the >faesability of appropriate list maintainance than Senator Conroy Well, as I heard one commentator point out, China manages it so there's no reason Australia can't. I don't think many people other than Senators Conroy and Fielding believe it's practical (other than via the Chinese approach). > - so I'm >rather of the opinion that it probably won't work very well, and probably >won't deliver on the intention which ('assuming good faith' !) is to try and >stop Australian's accessing material we'd likely all agree they shouldn't >be. It's tongue-in-cheek but here's an initial offering: http://pymblesoftware.com/store/index.php/systems/tin-foil-hat-isp-filtering-by-pass-router.html >Interestingly, I think it's possible that WMF projects do host 'Category 2 >restricted' material (explicitly depict sexual or sexually related activity >between consenting adults in a way that is likely to cause offence to a >reasonable adult) but I don't really have any idea of the ramifications for >that - certainly it wouldn't seem relavent to the Conroy proposal at this >time.... I would go further and suggest that it's virtually certain that the Internet Censor would find something to object to linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Human_sexuality I agree that WMA needs to ensure that it differentiates itself from Wikipedia. Some links that may be useful for anyone looking for further reading: http://www.efa.org.au/ http://nocleanfeed.com/ -- Peter Jeremy
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