to quote Conroy from
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm: "The internet
hasn't ground to a halt in the UK, it hasn't ground to a halt in
Scandinavian countries and it's not grinding the internet to a halt in
Europe.
He seems to forget, that Australia as a whole is being served some of
the slowest broadband connections to citizens. These other countries,
have much much faster internet home connections, than people in
Australia. Damn it, I know people in Europe that have 100mbit
connections to their homes. Conroy really needs to get his head out of
his nether regions.
Garner, Shannon wrote:
And mine..... (two cents that is..)
The Web Industry Professionals Association (WIPA) website has a section on
their website on this topic: http://wipa.org.au/story/24 and they will be
conducting discussion sessions to formulate a response to the proposal by
Senator Conroy.
It's a ridiculous and absurd proposal that we don't want or need. Let's stop it
by making our voices heard.
ShannonG
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From: Andrew R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:36:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia
And adding my 2 cents worth...
This is part of the grand conspiracy. The panic about porn / bomb instruct
ions on the web knee jerk is a smoke screen. What the government wants to d
o is control how it's citizen access media and hence ideas. They love the
traditional mass media because it's easy to control and run by cooperati
on that have a vested interest keeping the old paradigms. They hate the web
, email, etc because it's hard to control and hence subvert how ideas
spread. Goverements all over the place have been trying to do this for a l
ong time.
It's stupid, won't work and is going to cost us millions. What will h
appen is lots of folks will subscript to OS encrypted tunnelling services.
The outcome will be lots of encrypted web traffic which will be a lot worse
if you're trying to track the activities of bomb makers and paedophiles.
And it is going to chew up money that would be more productively spend imp
roving the speed of the infrastructure (and not slowing it down).
This is nearly a dumb that idea that Mr Keating had of sell exclusive righ
ts to provide Australian net access to Microsoft!Andrew
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