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Re: [privacy] Four Horsemen Alert: Australia Moves to Mandatory ISP Content Filterin g - Users Must 'Opt Out'
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:55:27 -0600 (CST)
I wonder if Cisco pushed that there as well, like they did here in Israel. Gadi. On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Australian IT. [snip] Australians will be forced to contact their internet service provider to avoid having their access to the web restricted. The restrictions are planned by the Federal Government to give greater protection to children from online pornography and "violent" websites. Under the plan, all internet service providers will be required to provide a "clean" feed to households and schools, free of pornography and other inappropriate material. Any internet users who want to "opt out" of the clean feed will have to contact their ISP. Online civil libertarians yesterday warned the freedom of the internet was at stake, while internet providers are concerned the new measures could slow the internet in Australia down to a crawl. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said everything possible had to be done to shield children from violent and pornographic online material. [snip] More of this idiocy here: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,22989956-5013040,00.html Background on the "Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse" can be found here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime_1.html I'm also curious as to whether or not "opting out" of this nonsense would land you on some government watch list? - - ferg Bonus link: "U.S. Among The World's Worst for Protecting Citizen's Privacy" http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHeFadq1pz9mNUZTMRAmP0AJ9SYk+19MrwRUhzqiUyXIEBQ/RKCACcCipz k1HLV7P5H8YR0DfugLAZ1Q4= =te5R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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Current thread:
- [privacy] Four Horsemen Alert: Australia Moves to Mandatory ISP Content Filterin g - Users Must 'Opt Out' Paul Ferguson (Dec 30)
- Re: [privacy] Four Horsemen Alert: Australia Moves to Mandatory ISP Content Filterin g - Users Must 'Opt Out' Gadi Evron (Dec 30)
- Re: [privacy] Four Horsemen Alert: Australia Moves to Mandatory ISP Content Filterin g - Users Must 'Opt Out' Drsolly (Dec 31)