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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 12 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 Well, yeah... isn't that what the person on the street would have told them? Still, it's nice to see our elected representatives being in step with public opinion - so why can't they do the same on the question of Internet filtering/censorship?Featured Whitepaper
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While it's better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly, haven't we (more importantly, they) been talking about these sorts of issues for long enough? I'm reminded of the old and admittedly dated joke about the woman that married a computer salesman. When she got back from the honeymoon, she confided in a girlfriend that "it was terrible - he sat on the bed all night telling me how great it was going to be, but never actually delivered anything." Maybe I'm being unkind. The Council also endorsed a set of frameworks and strategies that could - if and when they are turned into action - make it easier for people and businesses to deal with government agencies. These include the National e-Authentication Framework and the National Government Information Sharing Strategy. What else did the digital chatterers come up with? See page 3 . |
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