Yes you are right it failed when it was announced, not only was it just plain dumb & anyone who could think for a nanosecond realises this... IIRC it was also part of the a Fed Govt deal with a Tasmanian wowser politician to win his vote on some other piece of useless legislation of the day.
My comment is based on DCITA's (Department of Communication, Information Technology & the Arts) press release last year, plus the tenders out right now (also run by DCITA) for filter analysis and checking. www.dcita.gov.au.
There is another govt body ABA (Australian Broadcasting Authority) that has a list of 'approved' filters for corporate/ private/ government use. www.aba.gov.au.
Yeah it started and faltered a few years ago. But in mid 2006 a press release was put out by DCITA announcing a spend of up to 14m on filtering for every public libary in Australia. The two tenders out right now, also managed by DCITA, are part of this process.
And yes I agree 100% on the rights or otherwise of govt to control what we can & can't do on the Internet.
They tried this crap here in Australia a few years ago. Banned gambling sites so we all now send our casino $$s to Barbados. Right now there is a push to force ISPs to use content filtering, in fact the Fed Govt has a tender out now to evaluate effectiveness or otherwise of filtering technology.
The more they try to muzzle the Internet public, the more foolish they look.
hehehe wouldn't be/. if there weren't any TLAs. CRM - customer relationahip management (RIAA and Microsoft do this real well). ERP - enterprise resource planning (makes consultants rich). Oracle went on a buying spree & bought up their comptitors, SAP is the last pne standing. BTW, SAP is the name of a GBE, HQ'd in Germany.
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Yes you are right it failed when it was announced, not only was it just plain dumb & anyone who could think for a nanosecond realises this... IIRC it was also part of the a Fed Govt deal with a Tasmanian wowser politician to win his vote on some other piece of useless legislation of the day. My comment is based on DCITA's (Department of Communication, Information Technology & the Arts) press release last year, plus the tenders out right now (also run by DCITA) for filter analysis and checking. www.dcita.gov.au. There is another govt body ABA (Australian Broadcasting Authority) that has a list of 'approved' filters for corporate/ private/ government use. www.aba.gov.au.
Yeah it started and faltered a few years ago. But in mid 2006 a press release was put out by DCITA announcing a spend of up to 14m on filtering for every public libary in Australia. The two tenders out right now, also managed by DCITA, are part of this process. And yes I agree 100% on the rights or otherwise of govt to control what we can & can't do on the Internet.
They tried this crap here in Australia a few years ago. Banned gambling sites so we all now send our casino $$s to Barbados. Right now there is a push to force ISPs to use content filtering, in fact the Fed Govt has a tender out now to evaluate effectiveness or otherwise of filtering technology. The more they try to muzzle the Internet public, the more foolish they look.
hehehe wouldn't be /. if there weren't any TLAs. CRM - customer relationahip management (RIAA and Microsoft do this real well). ERP - enterprise resource planning (makes consultants rich). Oracle went on a buying spree & bought up their comptitors, SAP is the last pne standing. BTW, SAP is the name of a GBE, HQ'd in Germany.
... that Oracle acquires SAP, just like they bought every other ERP and CRM company with a mid-large business customer base. Vultures.