[AusRace] [Ausrace] Time to wake up and smell the atrocity folks

[L.B.Loveday]

I'll be happy if they filter my daughter's and all children's internet.
Happy to pay, happy to accept a slower response, happy to accept other
inconveniences.

LBL

-----Original Message-----
From: ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com [mailto:ausrace-bounces at ausrace.com]On
Behalf Of alasdair kempton
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:13 PM
To: AusRace Mailing List
Subject: [AusRace] [Ausrace] Time to wake up and smell the atrocity
folks



Hey guys, I don't contribute much, but there's something that I think we all
need to take a look at.

I really hate to break up the racing carnival flair, but this needs to be
looked at.

Recently, the Federal Government came up with the "Clean Stream" idea.
Nutshelling it, it's basically an internet filtering system that will be
compulsory for every Internet Service Provider in Australia.
At this point they're saying the end users will be able to choose between
filtered feeds and unfiltered feeds, but that could be changed easily, and
it'll still cause problems even if you don't take it.

What this system will do, for those less technically inclined, is look at
every single website you access and then check to see if it contains any
content deemed 'unsuitable' by the government. This could be anything, from
adult content, to inappropriate language, to the full blown china -
come-George Orwell mass blocking. It's not beyond the imagination, either.
My school IT technician blocked Google search engine because a minority of
students used it as a backdoor to myspace. This greatly inconvieniced
students and teachers alike I might add. I don't know about you guys, but I
don't want any government beurocrat telling me what I am and am not allowed
to view.

It's not just the content filtering though. Because ISPs would have to use
this system, odds are that the cost will be passed down to the user. also,
because you have to wait for the filter to go through your sites and
everyone else's sites, your service will probably slow down.

Best to stop in it's tracks I think. www.nocleanstream.com has an online
petiton you can sign, as well as the adresses, e-mails and phone numbers of
the relevant politicians.

They don't filter my calls, they don't filter my mail. I'll be damned if I
let them filter my internet.


Peace out, and happy punting


Al.

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