[AusNOG] Liberals plan to Filter the Internet

[Jake Anderson]

It doesn't sound like a CPE filter to me, it sounds like a dogs breakfast.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/355885,coalition-to-filter-internet-smartphones.aspx

"Smartphone users under the age of 18 would have "adult content filters" 
applied to their mobile services by default, according to the policy."
....right, and the length of time your average 16 year old will take to 
remove said filter?

In many ways this seems worse than an ISP level filter, I mean now they 
are trying to get ISP's to enforce software on end user equipment. Its 
just daft.

If my grandmother has an internet connection solely for VoIP what is she 
going to install this filter software on? Will she have to call up the 
government and ask for access to XXX material just so she can make cheap 
phone calls?

On 05/09/13 19:06, Martin - StudioCoast wrote:
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> /As has recently been achieved in the UK, we expect these standards 
> will involve the major //
> //internet service providers providing //*home network filters*//for 
> all new home broadband //
> //services, which will be switched on as the default unless the 
> customer specifies otherwise. //
> //This is a //*very different approach*//to the discredited compulsory 
> filter proposal championed //
> //by the Rudd-Gillard Government, which was abandoned as unworkable. //
> //The Coalition's approach aims to empower parents -- by giving them 
> the choice of whether //
> //or not to //*operate a filter at home*//, but by establishing the 
> default setting as one which //
> //provides maximum protection./
>
> This sounds like CPE side filtering to me....do journalists actually 
> read anything anymore??
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