Internet filtering to target 'instruction in drug use'

[Nooby]

Some more info:

 

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/163063,comme...d-a-filter.aspx

 

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/163366,trans...hip-regime.aspx

[Budman2012]

Bump!

From the SMH :

Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants

Australia's biggest technology companies, communications academics and many lobby groups have delivered a withering critique of the government's plans to censor the internet.

 

The government today published most of the 174 submissions it received relating to improving the transparency and accountability measures of its internet filtering policy.

 

Legislation to force ISPs to implement the policy is expected to be introduced within weeks. The filters will block a blacklist of "refused classification" websites for all Australians on a mandatory basis.

 

Most of the submissions called for full transparency surrounding the operation of the list and for all sites placed on the list by bureaucrats at the Australian Communications and Media Authority first to be examined by the Classification Board.

 

They supported a regular review of the list by an independent expert and the ability for blacklisted sites to appeal.

 

But many reiterated their concerns that the policy is fundamentally unsound and would do little to make the internet a safer place for children. Many said the scope of blocked content was too broad and would render legitimate sites inaccessible, while the process of adding sites to the blacklist could be subject to abuse by bureaucrats and politicians.

 

Google, which today officially stopped censoring search results in China, said it had held discussions with users and parents around Australia and "the strong view from parents was that the government's proposal goes too far and would take away their freedom of choice around what information they and their children can access".

 

Google also said implementing mandatory filtering across Australia's millions of internet users could "negatively impact user access speeds", while filtering material from high-volume sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter "appears not to be technologically possible as it would have such a serious impact on internet access".

 

"We have a number of other concerns, including that filtering may give a false sense of security to parents, it could damage Australia's international reputation and it can be easily circumvented," Google wrote.

 

The search giant said it was preferable instead to focus on improving education around cyber safety and providing tools that people could install on their home computers to block unwanted content.

 

Many of Google's concerns are mirrored by many of the other submissions by academics, technology companies, industry groups, lobby groups and ISPs.

Read the rest Here:

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technolog...nts=64#comments

 

Read some of the Submissions from everyday people + Google and the like Here :

http://www.dbcde.gov.au/online_safety_and_...res/submissions

 

 

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[sativaindicaruderalis]

I am not in the least surprised that they will target other things, the whole idea is wrong and its that simple.