ISPs, IT managers and the Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have slammed the federal government’s national content filtering scheme and dubbed it a technically impossible token gesture.The opt-out plan, announced this month by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, requires all ISPs to filter “objectionable material” from Internet traffic according to a blacklist defined by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).Industry professionals joined the EFA and rebutted the scheme, claiming it is technically impossible and economically infeasible to implement, police and maintain ISP-level content filtering.
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McMenamin stresses filtering should only apply to child porn and child abuse related Web sites.Child Wise CEO Bernadette McMenamin has clarified her position on the Federal government’s plan to implement mandatory Internet filtering at the ISP level, stating that all she wants blocked are child pornography Web sites, and nothing else.McMenamin told Computerworld she had received many passionate emails in response to an article she wrote for The Australian, calling for filters to battle child porn.”Some are sensible but others are very condescending, lecturing me about the limits of filtering. Others are completely rude and disrespectful calling me an idiot, imbecile and stupid,” she said.
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