I am generally against banning things in the media, but one thing I would like to see banned is the Labor government's 'Clean Feed' ISP (and Stephen Conroy, if possible!), designed to slow down the internet throughout Australia due to an outdated and outmoded concept of 'censorship.'
This Clean Feed, which is planned to be implemented throughout Australia, will cost at the very least,
millions of taxpayers money (which includes, fellow Australians, YOUR money), in order to 'block' what the government feels (not you) are unsavoury websites. In the Clean Feed fantasy land, these unsavoury websites will stop pedophiles from contacting each other. In reality land,
everything that the government doesn't want you to access will be blocked.
This includes LEGAL content. If you are an Australian, or living in Australia,
this will affect you unless you speak up and do something about it. and even if you don't live in Australia this will affect you because you'll suddenly have millions of grumpy Australians complaining about their slow, sheepified Internet connections even more than they do now....
Two points remain true:
1. The Clean Feed ISP can be routed around in a few hours, meaning that it's not going to stop
any Internet criminal activity in Australia. Believe me, I will be routing around it, and so should any other intelligent Australian who believes in freedom of information - especially that which is legal!
2. It will slow down
everyone's Internet throughout Australia, and cost YOU money; in a nation where we have some of the most backwards internet speeds, telecommunications technology and policies in the Western world.
The Clean Feed concept has been virtually condemned by every intelligent, educated person out there. The public, other ISPs, individual State governments, media and censorship folk, and of course lowly media analysts like myself.
( want to read more? Want to know what you can do? read on, dear reader, read on... )
Information sourced primarily from:
http://nocleanfeed.com/under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia licence.
ETA: Just to prove that the Clean Feed is being used for the 'good of all,' the Wikileaks ACMA black-list of sites so far also includes sites that support abortion, euthanasia, a photo of a dentist (which has apparently since been cleaned up) among other things. Sound like a policy that's worth paying millions for?
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