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Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering

Posted by Soulskill on from the is-it-possible-to-import-an-isp dept.

daria42 writes "The leaders of three of Australia's largest internet service providers — Telstra Media's Justin Milne, iiNet's Michael Malone and Internode's Simon Hackett — have, in video interviews with ZDNet.com.au over the past few months, detailed technical, legal and ethical reasons why ISP-level filtering won't work. Critics of the policy also say that users will have no way to know what's being filtered."

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  1. Well, maybe we know... by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zero comments. Maybe this post is being filtered in Australia.

    1. Re:Well, maybe we know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That can't be true - I'm posting from Austr

  2. Re:It will start with Child Porn... by philspear · · Score: 3, Funny

    The way that this is done with films, books, etc, is that everything must be reviewed before it can be made available to the public. Consider how fucked the internet would be if they applied that standard.

    I'd be interested in getting a position with the australian government in monitoring the internet, specifically the porn portion. I have extensive experience.