The Australian Government (led by Stephen Conroy) is continuing it’s attempt to filter the Internet. When will they stop wasting my tax money on such schemes which are generally acknowledged as being ineffective. Rather than trying to promote cheap, affordable, broadband access for the country they continue trying to put in filters which will just slow it down.
Rather than reiterate all the arguments against the scheme here I’ll point to several articles which already outline many of the problems:
- EFA – No Clean Feed
- Stop The Clean Feed
- ABC – The high price of internet filtering
- The Age – Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics (same article on the SMH
- The Australian – Stephen Conroy wades into child porn net flood
- Brisbane Times – Labor’s web gag ‘worse than Iran’
- Slashdot – Australian Government Censorship ‘Worse Than Iran’
- Crikey – Cheap tricks not the right response on internet filtering
