Aussie ISPs in online censorship trials
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Australian government is hell-bent on imposing online censorship whether the people who put it into power want it or not.
Now, with Melbourne’s Enex TestLab doing the dirty work, trials 16, “expressions of interest for the trial have been received from small, medium and large ISPs,” says Australian IT in what looks suspiciously like a government handout run almost verbatim.
“Ideally, ISPs will participate in the pilot for a minimum of six weeks,” it says, going on »»»
It would be up to individual ISPs to select customers for trials on the blacklisted pages, collated and managed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
ISPs have the option of testing network performance against a list of approximately 10,000 sites but without involving customers.
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According to ACMA, 864 web pages relate to content falling under the RC classification, including 674 pages containing child sexual abuse content.
The RC classification restricts depictions of child pornography, bestiality, excessive violence or sexual violence, detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use, and/or material that advocates terrorism acts.
Labor’s promise to censor the internet was a key election commitment.
However, details of Labor’s censorship policy will only be developed after the live trials and consultations with stakeholders, Senator Conroy has said in answer to parliamentary questions on notice.
Access to search engine tools will not be blocked to prevent circumvention of the filter, the minister said.
“Child protection lobbyists want more engagement between Government and children who are major stakeholders in the internet filtering debate,” adds the post.
online censorship - Australian censor plan targets BitTorrent, December 23, 2008
Australian IT - ISPs clustered for filtering trials, January 28, 2009
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January 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Nazi government of Germany was also a big child protection lobbyist.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Last time I checked only Singtel Optus(Asian-Owned) was only interested in a scaled-down trial, Telstra, and smaller ISPs totally refused
and the trials were supposed to be delayed until Mid Jan(Jan, 15 presumablely) and now,
Its almost Feburary!
Please voice your concern! mailto:melbourne@testlab.com.au I will = @