[AusNOG] Rudd shelves Filtering legislation

[Phillip Grasso]

sorry to resurface a an old thread (10 days ;-) ).

thought some of you might be interested in ABC Q&A tonight as:

Kaiser Kuo (Chinese pro filter guy)  & Brett Solomon will be talking about
the internet filter.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/coming_up.htm

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, David Keegel <djk at cybersource.com.au>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:12:36PM +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> >
> > On 29/04/2010, at 6:34 PM, Narelle wrote:
> >
> > >
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/rudd-retreats-on-passing-web-filter-legislation/story-e6frgakx-1225859630452
> >
> > Seen it, don't believe it.
>
> I find the article a lot easier to make sense of if you ignore the
> words "retreat", "backburner" and "shelved" in the headline and first
> sentence.
>
> Aside from that, everything else in the article looks to me
> consistent with :
>        Government is still working on mandatory ISP filtering,
>        but timelines have slipped, it will take longer than
>        expected to work out the details, so the legislation
>        may take something like 3/6/12 months to be introduced.
>
> I would not be surprised if the legislation was introduced in
> Spring 2010 (assuming an election has not been called by then).
>
> But I cannot see it being passed until there is a new Senate
> (probably July 2011 unless there is a double dissolution),
> unless the Liberals agree to let it pass.
>
> > If Rudd doesn't bring him into line, we can safely assume that Conroy
> > isn't actually speaking out of turn, and that Rudd's censorship policy
> ain't
> > dead until it's lying in a pool of its own blood with a spear sticking
> out
> > of its eye socket.
>
> It looks like its not so much dead as a bit delayed, and won't be
> legislated (at least, not passed) in 2010 before the election.
>
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