[privacy] Four Horsemen Alert: Australia Moves to Mandatory ISP Content Filterin g - Users Must 'Opt Out'

[Drsolly]

I just *love* this word "inappropriate", it is so meaningless.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> Via Australian IT.
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> [snip]
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> Australians will be forced to contact their internet service provider to
> avoid having their access to the web restricted.
> 
> The restrictions are planned by the Federal Government to give greater
> protection to children from online pornography and "violent" websites.
> 
> Under the plan, all internet service providers will be required to provide
> a "clean" feed to households and schools, free of pornography and other
> inappropriate material.
> 
> Any internet users who want to "opt out" of the clean feed will have to
> contact their ISP.
> 
> Online civil libertarians yesterday warned the freedom of the internet was
> at stake, while internet providers are concerned the new measures could
> slow the internet in Australia down to a crawl.
> 
> But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said everything possible had to
> be done to shield children from violent and pornographic online material.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> More of this idiocy here:
> http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,,22989956-5013040,00.html
> 
> Background on the "Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse" can
> be found here:
> 
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime_1.html
> 
> I'm also curious as to whether or not "opting out" of this nonsense would
> land you on some government watch list?
> 
> - - ferg
> 
> Bonus link:
> "U.S. Among The World's Worst for Protecting Citizen's Privacy"
> http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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