Comments on: How Conroy Has Won on Mandatory Internet Filtering

By: Rob Rasner IMDB

Rob Rasner IMDB — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:17:15 +0000

Cool.. is there any more info on this matter How Conroy Has Won on Mandatory Internet Filtering | theangle.org Rgds … Rob Rasner IMDB

By: The #Nocleanfeed campaign, DoS and political nous | AlexWhite.org

The #Nocleanfeed campaign, DoS and political nous | AlexWhite.org — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:32:49 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:37:33 +0000

Alex, ‘mandatory’ – in the minds of anti-filter advocates – has only ever meant one thing; no opt-out option.

Whether it is mandatory for ISPs to ‘offer’ a filter is irrelevant – ISPs are ALREADY forced by law to offer/provide PC filters. So that would be a relatively insignificant change in policy.

The problem has always been that the government changed their policy to remove the opt-out option for users.

The policy only became mandatory censorship of ‘users’ in October 2008. You will also find that there was no sustained or major opposition to their policy until October 2008.

It was not in December 2007 as you claim.

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Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:01:45 +0000

[...] for example: http://theangle.org/2009/12/23/how-conroy-has-won-on-mandatory-internet-filtering/ http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/01/06/the-no-clean-feed-campaign/ [...]

By: alexschlotzer

alexschlotzer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:53:12 +0000

Thanks for those links Richard but reading the ABC's item quite clearly states in the second paragraph:

"Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material."

Only further down does it state that if people don't want uncensored Internet then those people have to opt out. This is a very big difference. It is mandatory unless you specifically opt out meaning you would have had to actively seek to opt out and know when the filter is turned on to have done so.

Kate Lundy spends her post debating semantics while reconciling ALP policy with Conroy's filter scheme. While it's excellent she's prepared to blog about it she maintains the party line.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:13:01 +0000

Both the ABC and Kate Lundy (ALP) provide evidence that the filter was never a mandatory one in 2007: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/212... http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/12/21/further-th...

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:00:57 +0000

Alex – Conroy only announced a NON-mandatory filter in December 2007 – not a mandatory one.

It was in October 2008 that the mandatory filter was announced.

By: alexschlotzer

alexschlotzer — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:44:44 +0000

Here's a few more sites I've just found: http://www.dlc.asn.au/ http://bluebutton.org.au/ http://nocensorship.info/main/

By: alexschlotzer

alexschlotzer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:33:35 +0000

I agree with you Rob about a serious political heavy weight getting in behind the campaign being a big boost. However, I think a bigger boost could be made to the campaign in some big business heavy weights were to get in behind the campaign.

By: alexschlotzer

alexschlotzer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:27:24 +0000

Thanks for noting those additional sites to check out. The one site I follow for this is EFA's as my preferred source of information.