[AusNOG] FW: Aust: 'Coonan seeks to censor the Web'

[McDonald Richards]

Now this is just getting silly. 

Next thing you know they'll want us to filter out conversation topics and
explicit language on private phone lines as well.... Probably shouldn't go
giving them ideas.

McDonald Richards


-----Original Message-----
From: John Lindsay [mailto:jlindsay at internode.com.au] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:35 PM
To: McDonald Richards
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FW: Aust: 'Coonan seeks to censor the Web'

Don't forget that the Labor party want to require all ISPs to filter  
ALL internet connections for whatever they decide is "bad".

So Labor = Liberal = Censored internet.

http://www.alp.org.au/media/0807/mscoit100.php

jsl
--
John Lindsay - Carrier Relations Manager - Internode and Agile


On 21/09/2007, at 11:45 AM, McDonald Richards wrote:

> Well I guess we should really only start worrying about this after  
> the next
> federal election - which should be happening real soon now :)
>
> I couldn't see online censorship as a good policy to have on the  
> table in an
> election year either....
>
> McDonald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net]  
> On Behalf
> Of Matthew Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:40 AM
> To: Curtis Bayne
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FW: Aust: 'Coonan seeks to censor the Web'
>
> Curtis Bayne wrote:
>> Hey Everybody,
>>
>> Would there be any interest in drafting and sending a formal reply to
>> the senator, on behalf of members of the telecommunications industry,
>> expressing our concern at the proposed legislation?
>>
>> I can't vouch for anyone else, but I know that I am deeply concerned
>> about the impact that this will have on smaller telecommunications  
>> and
>> service providers within the industry, not to mention freedom of
>> speech within Australia.
>
> Why show concern over something that is never going to work and  
> exposes
> the gross lack of understanding of the Internet of the present
> government...?
>
> Why will it not work?
>
> Think logistics, how will they enforce it and have all ISPs block
> traffic to the site?
>   --  Especially if the site is SSLd.
>   --  Especially if the site is hosted on a major overseas service
> providers' website.
>   --  Especially with the myriad of open (insecure) proxy servers  
> on the
> Internet.
>   --  Especially with services designed to defeat this kind of issue
> (think Tor).
>
> Is there any more I have forgotten?  (I'm sure there is).
>
> Regards,
>
> Mat
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