[AusNOG] conroy reaffirms commitment to filter

[Pinkerton, Eric]

As someone who is 100% against the filter, I actually think that publishing instructions for TOR at this stage is counter productive for the following reasons.


 1.
It plays in the hands of the "if you have nothing to worry about you have nothing to hide argument".
 2.
It weakens our opposition to the added latency caused by filtering, because TOR adds considerable latency.
 3.
TOR increases the likelihood of your traffic being intercepted at the exit node, and as such is a security risk.
 4.
Despite TOR being created with lofty intentions, I am told by those that have operated exit nodes that it carries as much if not more child pornography than it does blogs from dissidents skirting censorship by right wing regimes.

We are not against the filter because we want to look at RC material with impunity (contrary to what Conroy has suggested) - We are against the filter because amongst other things it's a heap of money that will not be spent on policing or education, and it will cost far more than Conroy thinks,  It can't stop bad people doing bad things, it will slow the internet down, it will give future governments tools which will be difficult not to abuse, it will encourage criminals and innocent people alike to use tools like TOR, and ultimately make the polices job harder, It will be used to legitimise censorship in other nations, it will damage our relationship with the US, The current scope of 'RC material' is ridiculously wide and vague, and last but not least becasue this proposed legislation has nothing to do with stopping bad people doing bad things, and everything to do with appeasing right wing Christian lobbies with deep pockets who do not understand that it will ultimately put children at increased risk.

My 2c

Eric Pinkerton

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Halloway
Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2010 3:53 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] conroy reaffirms commitment to filter

Ausnog,

I'm quite opposed to the AU government filtering and monitoring my internet. Instead of just moaning about it though, I thought I would contribute a bit to this issue of the internet filter. I need some thoughts on my site here:

www.dontfilterme.com<http://www.dontfilterme.com>

Its my 2 cents. Please tell me what you really think about it.

Ryan
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