<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The flick the switch part comes into play one year after the legislation, right?<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ben Grubb<br><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><br></div></div></span></div><div><div>On 12/03/2010, at 1:20 PM, Matt Shadbolt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Guys,<br><br>Was just reading an article on the internet censorship debate (<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/media-rights-group-puts-australia-on-internet-watchlist-20100312-q23p.html">http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/media-rights-group-puts-australia-on-internet-watchlist-20100312-q23p.html</a>) and found a paragraph that surprised me:<br>
<br>"The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has said he plans
to introduce legislation by the end of next week that would require
ISPs to block a blacklist of "refused classification" websites for all
Australians."<br><br>I was wondering if any of you - the network operators - have actually implemented the proposed changes or are ready to flip the switch when the legislation passes?<br><br>I'm a keen observer (and opposer) of the filters and I find it strange it will be come law when I haven't seen any real technical specifications published yet.<br>
<br>Excuse my ignorance if you've been over this before.<br><br>Matt.<br>
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