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VIRTUALISATION Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering
VIRTUALISATION Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering | Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 01 March 2009 | |
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Mr Malone described the scheme as a farce, unworkable and a waste of taxpayers' money. However, he said iiNet would sign up for the government's trial to demonstrate why. Since Mr Malone's comments, senior representatives of Telstra, Optus, Primus and a large coterie of other substantial ISPs have all voiced their criticism of the filtering scheme. Other groups opposed to Internet censorship such as Electronic Frontiers Foundation have joined a groundswell of public opposition to the scheme. The Federal Opposition, sensing the groundswell of opinion against mandatory Internet content filtering at the ISP level has jumped on the bandwagon and joined the chorus against the Government's scheme. The Government has been caught out acting in a blatantly oafish manner by excluding all the major ISPs except Primus from its filtering trial. It also caused widespread outrage when an advisor from Senator Conroy's staff contacted the IIA and demanded that a network engineer from IIA member Internode be punished for "acting irresponsibly" by publicly criticising the Internet filtering scheme. Industry experts have spoken out and warned of the dangers of ISP content filtering. Aside from a potential level of censorship that approaches that of what is currently in place in countries like China, the technical issues are enormous they say. At a time when Australia is already lagging the developed world badly in high speed broadband access, the Government plans to introduce a ham-fisted, burdensome load on a network that is barely able to keep up with current demand. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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