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VIRTUALISATION iiNet pulls out of "fundamentally flawed" filtering trial
VIRTUALISATION iiNet pulls out of "fundamentally flawed" filtering trial | iiNet pulls out of "fundamentally flawed" filtering trial |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 23 March 2009 | |
  
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"We are not able to reconcile participation in the trial with our corporate social responsibility, our customer service objectives and our public position on censorship," Malone said. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material, but a much wider range of issues including what the Government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes." He claimed that "this trial and policy is not the solution or even about [child pornography...In reality, the vast majority of online child pornography activity does not appear on public websites but is distributed over peer-to-peer networks which are not and cannot be captured by this trial or policy." Malone said "the Government should re-think its approach and urgently needs to make clear what its intentions are in respect of Internet censorship. This lack of communication from government and bureaucracy is rightly seen as underhand and unsavoury and is now attracting international dismay as well as Australian disgust." Communications minister Stephen Conroy named on 11 February the first six ISPs that had been selected to participate in the planned trial: they were Primus, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1." ISPs had been invited to put forward proposals to participate in two pilot streams: filtering the ACMA blacklist of prohibited URLs; and filtering the ACMA blacklist of prohibited URLs along with "additional content filtering solutions that may be offered as optional services by ISPs." The government said it was still in discussions with a number of ISPs that had applied to take part. During a Q&A session after his speech at the ATUG conference earlier this month, Conroy accused some of the applicant ISPs of making unreasonable requests of the department: of "trying to get the government to pay for their infrastructure upgrades."
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