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VIRTUALISATION Even China can't make Net-side filtering foolproof
VIRTUALISATION Even China can't make Net-side filtering foolproof | Even China can't make Net-side filtering foolproof |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 09 June 2009 | |
  
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The official position is that the move is designed to protect children from pornography and other undesirable content. However, according to the WSJ, "China already operates an extensive Internet filtering system, commonly called the Great Firewall, which blocks access to a range of content, from pornography to politically sensitive sites...But that system blocks content at the network level, and many users circumvent it." Minchin commented: "This is very telling; for a country that went down the path of network-level Internet filtering from the very beginning and probably has the most advanced system in the world...While the Chinese are conceding that ISP-level filtering is not a panacea for restricting access to online content, the Rudd Government is spending millions of dollars to pursue this very approach...While technology advances at a great pace, [communications minister] senator [Stephen] Conroy has so far failed to demonstrate that a mandatory ISP-level filtering regime can be implemented without adversely affecting the online experiences of law abiding Australians."
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