[AusNOG] Conroy's net filter still alive and kicking

[Vitaly Osipov]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:37 PM, James Troy (PageUp/AU/VIC)
<jamest at pageuppeople.com> wrote:

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> Secondly this is the hook/starting point to get ISP's to keep records of
> all our traffic on the net. It lays the foundation.
>

Sure, this lays the foundation, especially the transparent proxy part
of the scheme - but what for? Surveillance state? Australia as a
guinea pig for the global adoption of this scheme? A vendor hoping to
sell equipment? Some vague future data mining applications by ATO? ;)
Cyberwar games (= an attempt to define a state border on the
Internet)?

Imagination runs wild...


Vitaly



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> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/conroys-net-filter-stil
> l-alive-and-kicking-20100910-1540s.html
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> <Friday rant>
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> For the life of me I cannot understand what is driving this filter
> thing. I do not believe in altruistic government implementing stuff
> purely for the citizens benefit without additional benefits for the
> industry or the govt itself. Textbook examples are:
>
> e-health = a tool to reduce Medicare fraud smart meters = a tool for
> power distribution companies to tie your individual tariffs into spot
> market (and more) NBN = ?  a war with Telstra? a tool to enable the
> Orwellian scale surveillance? Still thinking on this one..
>
> But the filter? Is it pure Christian fundamentalism? Censorship? what?
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> </Friday rant>
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> Regards,
> Vitaly
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