Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.
Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material.
Pundits say consumers have been lulled into believing the opt-out proviso would remove content filtering altogether.
The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
A spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the filters will be mandatory for all Australians.
“Labor’s plan for cyber-safety will require ISPs to offer a clean feed Internet service to all homes, schools and public Internet points accessible by children,” he said.
“The upcoming field pilot of ISP filtering technology will look at various aspects of filtering, including effectiveness, ease of circumvention, the impact on internet access speeds and cost.”
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) contacted by Computerworld say blanket content filtering will cripple Internet speeds because the technology is not up to scratch.
Online libertarians claim the blacklists could be expanded to censor material such as euthanasia, drugs and protest.
Internode network engineer Mark Newton said many users falsely believe the opt-out proviso will remove content filtering.
“Users can opt-out of the 'additional material' blacklist (referred to in a department press release, which is a list of things unsuitable for children, but there is no opt-out for 'illegal content'”, Newton said.
“That is the way the testing was formulated, the way the upcoming live trials will run, and the way the policy is framed; to believe otherwise is to believe that a government department would go to the lengths of declaring that some kind of Internet content is illegal, then allow an opt-out.
“Illegal is illegal and if there is infrastructure in place to block it, then it will be required to be blocked — end of story.”
Newton said advisers to Minister Conroy have told ISPs that Internet content filtering will be mandatory for all users.
The government reported it does not expected to prescribe which filtering technologies ISPs can use, and will only set blacklists of filtered content, supplied by the Australia Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
EFA chair Dale Clapperton said in a previous article that Internet content filtering could lead to censorship of drugs, political dissident and other legal freedoms.
“Once the public has allowed the system to be established, it is much easier to block other material,” Clapperton said.
According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million.
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See what happens when labour is in power. I can make up my own mind. I don't need some poncy pollie telling me what I can and can't do. I'm a mature adult not some 9 year old child. and yes I have children, but I watch what they get up to and also have parental protection on there web sites.
WTF IS GOING ON?
those people had better stop paying for that crappy internet. if they (the people) stuck together, and stopped paying their bills for 2- months, then they would see who's really in charge.
YOU'D BETTER STOP PAYING YOUR INTERNET BILL PEOPLE, AND STICK TOGETHER. UNITE PEOPLE.
i personally don't need the government in my business, and if they tried to do that sh*t here in america, the sh*t would hit the fan.
REMEMBER, YOU DONT HAVE TO SIT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS!!!!
I don't have children!!
I don't have children, nor will I ever. Although, if I ever did, as a parent, I don't need public servants I pay tax to, the same ones that pander to commie china, telling me what the hell I can or can't look at online.
Rudd, stuff your Fabian Orwell 1984 vision up your clacker!
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Last frontier on free-speech lost
The internet is truly a medium of free-speech with anything and everything free for all. This filtering of 'illegal' activity can be quickly seized upon by those in power to control more and more of what is accessible; falsely proclaiming it to be illegal. It's just like the 'terrorism' scare where all manners of force are used in it's name. Pitiful excuse.
There's a lot truth out there on the internet which those in power don't want the general public to be aware of. It's these that the government doesn't want you to know. The only protection we need is the protection of our rights to the truth.
If you are a foreigner planning a trip to Australia.....
If you are a foreigner planning on visiting Australia, you can fix it where you don't have to put up with the filtering regime, while you are in Australia. If you have home computer running Windows XP or Vista professional, and have a broadband (perferably DSl) connections with multiple IP addresees, you can set it up where you can create a VPN tunnel to your computer back home.
That's right, you can create your own VPN server on your Windows XP machine. Then you can access it from any other Windows machine in the world. All you have to do is set up the connection, using the network settings from the remote machine. You then just sign on to your machine, supplying the credentials you create on your home computer, before coming to Australia.
A broadband account with multiple IPs is needed, becuase when you sign on the VPN tunnel on your server, the server side of the VPN connection fetch an available IP from the pool of IPs your ISP has assigned you, then you will be surfing with that IP address. You also also be using your ISP's DNS and DHCP facilities, so you will be able to avoid the filtering regime the locals have to put up with.
Becuase of the encryption, there is no possible way the authorities will know WHAT you are up to. All they will know is that you are making an encrypted connection to home computer, outside the country. All they will get, if they try to monitor the connection, is a bunch of indecipherable garbage.
Use a VPN
This can be defeated using a VPN tunnel based in another country. VPN is secure, encrypted, and cannot be analysed, monitored, cracked, or sniffed
I own an Internet radio station in Australia, and I have my servers in the United States. So all I have to do is simply login to my server, using the VPN software built into Windows, and what I do online cannot be filtered, monitored, analysed, cracked, or sniffed, becuase it is heavily encypted. If Rudd and his cronies tried to sniff my traffic, all they would get is a bunch of GARBAGE.
Why you do think so many offices that allow remote access require VPN? It is a secure protocol that is impossible to crack.
And there are plenty of subscription VPN services out there, though with the weaking Australian dollar, they would be much more expensive now, but worth the price. Right now, they would run about 30 Australian dollars a month, on average. I advocate people doing this, unless they are like me, and own servers outside Australia.
Like I Said, use a VPN
Get a subscription VPN service and use that. There is no POSSIBLE way your connection can be monitored
someone vote him out before he wrecks out internets
if i wanted censored internet, i'd move to china
all this censoring garbage makes stuff boring.
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But will it...?
prevent illegal, harmful material at least as well as the government has prevented privatization of taxpayer funded infrastructure? Oh, I hope so.
And...will it stop spam?
And please, everyone stop finding loopholes in the idea, you'll spoil the fantasy and the highly-paid stakeholders in the deal won't get their money. Shhh...be quiet and let them naively give your tax-dollars to the clever storyteller who convinced the technophobic bureaucrats it was possible and desirable to filter the internet for the whole country, based on a set of rules the people did not agree to.
This approach is so naive!
It should be access an unfiltered internet.
If the community wanted to protect their chidren they would choose ISPs offer filtering. It would differentiate ISPs.
Let competition create the best possible filters. A government can't ever hope to do anything but produce a clumsy solution which doesn't adapt quickly enough.
The government wants to censor, control is reassuring, but do they really think they will do more good than harm by implementing a country wide blacklist? It's so naive to think so. A blunt technical solution will only be circumvented and out of date in seconds... except when it's a political issue they want to control. Do you want that?
I will vote against against a government which attempts this. It will hold Australia back.
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Classic.
Who Gets To Decide?
So much for our right of choice. Content filtering to remove inappropriate content.
So who decides what's inappropriate? Obviously my Government does not feel that I have sufficient congnitive abilities to decide for myself. They feel that they need to decide themselves what is good for me.
I completely object to any scheme that censors my rights. Next they will be telling me which books I can't read, what movies I can't watch etc etc etc. What words to say, how to walk etc etc etc.
We are obviously no better than children who require the guidance of authoritarian parents in how we live our life.
We are obviously not responsible enough either to guide our children through the rocky shoals of 'inappropriate content'. They'll censor our Internet feeds, but what about the rubbish on the TV - when will that be stopped? Our children are deliberately exposed to far worse on the TV than they see on their email or Internet feeds.
I know there is rubbish on the 'Net. I know that the 'spam' content is high - However, I also know that much legitimate content is trapped by these filters and just never gets through.
Who decides what is rubbish? Sometimes one persons rubbish is another persons manna. It's all a matter of perspective.
I think it is disgraceful.
What could possibly go wrong?
"We have buttiduously canvbutted the industry, buttessed what is available and buttembled the finest selection of PFI contractors for this buttignment. The filters will buttociatively clbuttify all communications and filter then, I can butture you, rebuttemble them with surpbutting exacbreastude in any quanbreasty. Consbreastuents can be rebuttured that a mulbreastude of industry compebreastors will butture quality and keep our clbuttrooms safe."
Blog rant: http://notnews.today.com/2008/10/12/universal-internet-filter-plans-deta...
And any tehnically saavy user
And any tehnically saavy user can use VPN. Becuase it is use heavily in international business, no government would DARE ban VPN connections.
There is no way to outlaw VPN without shutting down a lot of business transctions. This is what makes VPN the "achilless heel" of any filtering regime.
Highly unlikely
Any scheme like this will ultimately prove to slow down Internet access more than it already is (and it is already slower than every other country on the planet... but maybe that's why the government seem to think this won't be an issue?)
The ultimate solution: start requiring routers to be sold with content filtering enabled by default.
A competent user can turn it off, sure, but a competent user can get around whatever filter the government puts in place. Hasn't anyone ever heard of "onion routing"?