[AusNOG] Rudd shelves Filtering legislation

[Anand Kumria]

And, likewise, Four Corners has a reports on the filter tonight too.

Anand

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Phillip Grasso
<phillip.grasso at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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