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Telecommunications Minister under fire: IT Professionals say net filtering won't work
Telecommunications Minister under fire: IT Professionals say net filtering won't work | Minister under fire: IT Professionals say net filtering won't work |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 27 October 2008 | |
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Now, SAGE-AU (the System Administrators Guild of Australia), a not-for-profit professional organisation representing system administrators in Australia - has added its voice of authority to the debate claiming that filtering is impractical and accusing Conroy's staff of using underhand tactics against one of its members. President Donna Ashelford said: "The Government's own figures indicate that all of the filtering systems trialled would impact Internet performance, as well as availability of legitimate services to varying degrees." She stressed that SAGE-AU's position on the issue of Internet filtering was "based purely on the technical feasibility of an Internet filtering solution," and not on the questions of censorship. "Specifically SAGE-AU remains concerned that the filters tested are unable to provide an effective, reliable filtering solution with the performance required for modern broadband connections." The Government is also under fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded tactics in attempted to silence one of its members, Mark Newton, an employee of Internode, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of the proposed scheme on the Whirlpool online forum. CONTINUED |
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