[AusNOG] Happy new year / New rules for age-restricted internetand mobile content after the 20th of january 2008

[Mark Newton]

On 04/01/2008, at 11:42 AM, Mark Newton wrote:
> There is, as yet, no technical model from the Government describing
> how their stuff is supposed to work in the real world.  There's
> no statement from them saying whether they want URL filtering,
> flesh tone recognition, diversions to third party filtering service
> providers, or a signed stat dec saying we'll all try our very
> best to avoid sending porn to customers but make no guarantees.
> It is not our job to develop these alternatives for them;  it's
> our job to demolish their proposals, not feed them raw materials.

Just briefly expanding on that, and some other messages I've sent over
the last couple of days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Discipline

Learn these lessons.  We failed in our campaign against the BSA
largely because we didn't pay any heed to this stuff.  If we ever
want to be seen as an "Industry" instead of a disparate rabble
we _must_ learn these lessons.

In this debate, we are "public policy advocates."  We all
need to be saying pretty much the same things, otherwise our
opponents will look at us and say, "There's obviously a wide
variety of opinions, no clear consensus, any alternative is
as good as any other, so lets choose _MY_ alternative."

   - mark

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