[AusNOG] "85 per cent of Australian internet service providers, who have said they would welcome the filter, including Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and iinet.'' - Conroy

[Patrick Tye]

>From a personal point of view I certainly do not agree including many 
colleagues, considering it is election time everyone should be ringing their 
federal member and expressing an opinion.

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Patrick Tye
Senior IP Engineer
Primus Telecommunications Aust.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Newton" <newton at internode.com.au>
To: "Mark Smith" 
<nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Cc: <AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] "85 per cent of Australian internet service providers, 
who have said they would welcome the filter, including Telstra, Optus, 
iPrimus and iinet.'' - Conroy


>
> On 30/05/2010, at 9:25 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/filter-goes-ahead-regardless-20100529-wmg7.html
>>
>> ''This is a policy that will be going ahead,'' Senator Conroy said.
>> ''We are still consulting on the final details of the scheme. But this
>> policy has been approved by 85 per cent of Australian internet service
>> providers, who have said they would welcome the filter, including
>> Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and iinet.''
>>
>> Surely that's incorrect.
>
> Did he actually ask 85% of Australian ISPs?
>
> I think he did ask iiNet, here's what they said this morning:
> http://www.iinet.net.au/filtering/what-we-really-think.html
>
> It's funny.  No matter how much I assume politicians can't be trusted,
> whenever they come out with stuff like this I remain surprised. :-)
>
>  - mark
>
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