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ISP filtering legislation on the way
ISP filtering legislation on the way | The Australian
If this goes ahead.....Oh yes there will be blood.THE federal government hopes to introduce legislation to enable its controversial internet filter by the end of the year.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the legislation would be this year "sooner rather than later''.
Timing for the web filter legislation, which has earned the ire of ISPs and internet freedom advocates, depends on the date for the looming federal election and whether Labor wins office.
Political commentators have earmarked August to October as possible election dates. The polls are likely to occur before the Victorian election in late November.
Since the plan was mooted in 2007, Senator Conroy has changed his mind several times on how the filtering scheme would eventually work.
The latest measure is to create a list of web pages comprising refused classification-rated content and force internet service providers to automatically block them.
Legislation will be introduced to require all ISPs to filter the RC content list.
New Prime Minister Julia Gillard backs the filtering plan. She made her support known to ABC radio today, saying she understood public concerns over the scheme but that Senator Conroy was working to find a resolution that would be in the "right shape".
When asked if Ms Gillard had set a deadline for the filtering legislation to be introduced, Senator Conroy said: "We are prepared to spend as much time as necessary to make sure we get it right.
"The discussions we're having behind the scenes with various players are more interested in getting the implementation and the actual policy right rather than saying it's got to be done by some artificial deadline.''
Those talks include consultation with ISPs on how to increase accountability and transparency for RC material.
"I expect it (the legislation) to be this year. I expect that we will table the legislation this year sooner rather than later.
"If you're thinking 'does that mean December?' - no, I wouldn't think it would be December, but there could be intervening events that I am not in control of,'' Senator Conroy told reporters in Sydney today.
The policy would be implemented 12 months from the passage of legislation.
RC broadly consists of illegal content but Google and various internet experts believe the list could potentially contain legitimate material.
Labor Senator Kate Lundy's suggestion for an opt-in approach has been rejected.
US Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich has urged the government to ditch the plan, saying child pornographers can be captured and prosecuted without using mandatory internet filters.
Ms Gillard told ABC Darwin she was happy with the policy aim of the filtering plan.
"Clearly you can't walk into a cinema in Australia and see certain things and we shouldn't on the internet be able to access those things either so Stephen Conroy is working to get this in the right shape.
"I'm happy with the policy aim and the policy aim is if there are images of child abuse, child pornography ... they are not legal in our cinemas, you would not be able to go to the movies and watch that ... you shouldn't ... no one should want to see that.
"You're not able to go to the movies and see those kinds of things why should you be able to see them on the internet? I think that that's the kind of moral, ethical question at the heart of this."
But she understood concerns raised over the filtering program, especially how it would impact speed and remove proper use of the internet.
"It's not my intention in any way to jeapordise legitimate use of the internet," she said.
The filtering legislation was expected to be introduced in the autumn or winter parliamentary sessions but former prime minister Kevin Rudd postponed it until after the next election.
The Black Beauty
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I like how they spend billion on a NBN and then invent ways to slow it down.
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Mrs Wraith
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yet people continue to support them. hell people voted for them and will again. just because they have a vagina leading them for the first time.Originally Posted by Leah
Liberals need to make their position on this clear. Its the only way to secure votes for them from those in the IT community. This election is really going to suck.
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Any person that votes Labor in their electorate only because they want a female running the country is daft and should be banned from voting. Hmm on second thoughts can we ban anyone that is voting Labor in general
SkyFall
Abbott isnt exactly condemming the filter either. Im sure he'd love it also.
The Black Beauty
smooth moderator
likening the internet to a public cinema... yeh ok.
End of thread!
But yeah, while it's definitely a hot issue for voters, I don't think it's going to come up much in campaign policies.
Infidel Bear
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Does anyone expect anything else from the Australian Communist Party?
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Thats Dr to you.....
Howard had plans for a filter - difference was is was optional.
Conroy just about branded everyone that doesn't support the filter as kiddy fiddlers.
Conroy is more of a fundamentalist religious nutjob than Abbott.
It should be optional. Give people some way of being able to turn it on and off that isnt accesible to the kids. I personally like internet porn LOL and dont want some politician telling me what I can and cant view on the net, I am old enough to filter my own content and the computer is in the lounge room so i can see what my young bloke is doing when he is on the net.
VZSV6
What will ALL the gamers do!
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get out of their lazy boy recliner and go outside then become burnt to a crisp by all that natural sunlight LOL
We looked at a house before we bought our current house and when we went in there was this big fat guy in a lazy bor recliner with a table that had been modified to come up and over his lap with wheels on it and a special spot for the computer cpu box and then a nice big flat screen in front of him, all the curtains drawn and a box of junk food next to him, i dont think he ever left the house, but it really made the house viewing that much more memorable, needless to say we didnt buy the house LOL
mmmm beer....
Lets hope that its one of their election promises, they never keep them anyway.
Bring on the Libs please
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SkyFall
What makes you think they will say no to a filter.
from what ive seen its only the Greens that oppose it.
The Black Beauty
Donati..Whoa Green
Thats it, screw it, I'm voting for the 'Fishing and Lifestyle Party' that I saw on my last ballot.
-Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
-Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
-Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short Phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan (1986)
VZSV6
ROFL! That's brilliant :P
Reppin' Alloytech 190/5 Speed Automatics.
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I don't remember anyone inspecting my house while I was home...
And I thought the lag in my gaming was bad now....
Slayer of Stupid Threads
Yeah no shit. One of the worst internet speeds in the developed world and theyre gonna **** it up more. Fantastic. I love being handicapped in online gaming...
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what do you mean for the first time i thought that rudd bloke was a real C%NT
whats the difference between my missus and my blower??
well they both whine but the blower actually puts out
Banned
LOL!!!touche..
So your saying that if the Libs get into power, they would still put it in? I have not seen any statement to that effect, if they do, screw them all
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