Mark Rasch, 2009-02-13
The Australian government is considering requiring that Internet service providers in that country install filters which would prevent citizens from accessing tens of thousands of sites that contain "objectionable" material.
Colapse all |
Post comment
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-14
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-14
Michael Speck
Michael Speck
'Searching for illicit data' fails to accurately describe some of the potential filtering activity you are referring to.
Perhaps a 'filter' at the Search Engine Results Page or the Application Results page which is not what you are trying to download, merely a smorgasboard of advertisements which...
[ more ] [ reply ]
Perhaps a 'filter' at the Search Engine Results Page or the Application Results page which is not what you are trying to download, merely a smorgasboard of advertisements which...
[ more ] [ reply ]
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-14
David H
David H
Overall, an excellent analysis and generally agree that filtering should be a personal decision of the consumer or LAN network admin to activate an ISP service. The drawback and most likely position of the government is that child pornographers and terrorists will still freely communicate and exchan...
[ more ] [ reply ]
[ more ] [ reply ]
Good article. Bad characterization of DPI.
2009-02-15
Anonymous
Anonymous
Hi Mark,
"Known as deep packet inspection, this is the electronic equivalent of mandating that the U.S. Postal Service, DHL, UPS and FedEx open and read every package and letter ? without a warrant or probable cause ? to determine whether there is anything in the container which meets a predefine...
[ more ] [ reply ]
"Known as deep packet inspection, this is the electronic equivalent of mandating that the U.S. Postal Service, DHL, UPS and FedEx open and read every package and letter ? without a warrant or probable cause ? to determine whether there is anything in the container which meets a predefine...
[ more ] [ reply ]
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-15
neilmc
neilmc
Mark, it's great to see some international attention on our nonsensical filtering policies.
It's actually much worse than described in your article. The ACMA blacklist is currently only about 1300 URLs. Currently it feeds into blacklists in some PC based filters sold in the Australian market. I'd...
[ more ] [ reply ]
It's actually much worse than described in your article. The ACMA blacklist is currently only about 1300 URLs. Currently it feeds into blacklists in some PC based filters sold in the Australian market. I'd...
[ more ] [ reply ]
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-16
Bourkie
Bourkie
Mark D. Rasch,
You make the claim that 'the Australian filtering scheme only seeks to identify and filter child pornography and terrorist information...'
This is incorrect - the current ALP policy calls for the ACMA blacklist to be banned - _more than 50%_ of which is legal content (MA15+, R18...
[ more ] [ reply ]
You make the claim that 'the Australian filtering scheme only seeks to identify and filter child pornography and terrorist information...'
This is incorrect - the current ALP policy calls for the ACMA blacklist to be banned - _more than 50%_ of which is legal content (MA15+, R18...
[ more ] [ reply ]
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-20
Anonymous
Anonymous
100% agree with this article, this is a very slippery slope that starts with the best intentions. We have seen what things like the patriot act born with the business case of fighting terrorism can do to individual privacy. Hopefully there is enough protect and opposition to this stop it from becomi...
[ more ] [ reply ]
[ more ] [ reply ]
Free-Market Filtering
2009-02-23
TerryH
TerryH
Yo Mark,
The theme of your article is well intentioned but your final suggestion seems simplistic. First, those seeking child porn would not use the filter so that wouldn't stop the practice. Second, folks who choose not to use the filter for other reasons may be falsely characterized as potent...
[ more ] [ reply ]
The theme of your article is well intentioned but your final suggestion seems simplistic. First, those seeking child porn would not use the filter so that wouldn't stop the practice. Second, folks who choose not to use the filter for other reasons may be falsely characterized as potent...
[ more ] [ reply ]
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/1001/pc=PC_90156#prohib
As you can see, it includes X18+ which most of us know as regular legal for adults to view porn. There are millions of URLS on the net that ...
[ more ] [ reply ]