[AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

And just so no one thinks this is a good idea:

http://www.efa.org.au/2009/05/05/efa-gets-link-removal-notice/

Insane and angry making.

MMC

Mark Newton wrote:
> On 05/05/2009, at 6:51 PM, Kai wrote:
>
>   
>> Mmmm, so the article doesn't tell the full story, figures, but what's
>> the bet that certain people in certain places will use this one  
>> article
>> to basically say "Hey, see, the filter aint ALL bad..." :S
>>     
>
> The problem is that Peter Mancer from Watchdog has already admitted that
> it can't satisfy even the most watered-down of the Government's  
> requirements,
> because it can't cope with URLs hosted on high-traffic sites occupying
> the blacklist.
>
> Remember:  Since last year, Conroy has claimed that he wants the ACMA
> prohibited list to be blocked.  When the ACMA prohibited list was leaked
> that position became politically hilarious, so he changed his tune to
> "almost exclusively RC" (SBS Insight 31 March 2009), then "We've
> never stated that we were going to do anything other than Refused
> Classification" (Triple J Hack, 7 April 2009)
> http://newmatilda.com/polliegraph/?p=567
>
> The problem is that the Classification Board has Refused Classification
> to several YouTube videos, which means the ultimate "high traffic site"
> is on the blacklist even after Conroy has changed all the definitions.
>
> And Mancer has said that high-traffic sites will blow his system's  
> brains
> out.  Indeed, the failure mode is exactly the same (and for exactly the
> same reason) as the IWF Wikipedia failure in the UK in early December.
>
> Mancer's proposed solution is to whitelist high-traffic sites, so they  
> won't
> be blocked even if the Government insists that they must be.
>
> So Exetel has had a "runaway success" in testing a system which cannot
> satisfy the Government's requirements.
>
> Can Exetel deploy Mancer's censorbox without a Government mandate to
> deploy a voluntary filtering service in response to demand from their
> customers?  By all means, and more power to them.  Hope it works out
> for them.
>
> But will that meet the dictates of the Government's stated policy?
> Nope.  They'll need another, untested censorbox to do that.
>
>    - mark
>
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