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VIRTUALISATION Don't mention the filtering trial!
VIRTUALISATION Don't mention the filtering trial! | Don't mention the filtering trial! |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 26 March 2009 | |
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So did the government have plans to mandate the provision of filtering to a much wider range of content than that already classified RC? Conroy repeatedly refused to answer that question. Yet he repeatedly stressed the government's commitment to blocking RC content, "the real filth". Well good on him, but I suggest that if this is a primary aim, by devoting time and resources to this highly unpopular trial to see if blocking of a much larger range of ill-defined and undesirable content is technically feasible he is simply delaying the achievement of that praiseworthy goal. Blocking "the real filth" is easy In February last year he was presented with a report from ACMA "Developments in Internet Filtering Technologies and Other Methods to Promote Online Safety." It was the first annual report under a direction issued by the previous government for the ACMA to investigate such developments. It made very complementary mention of Cleanfeed, a technology developed by BT for the specific purpose of blocking a small number (around 1100) of web sites associated with child pornography, as identifed by the Internet Watch Foundation.
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