Minister under fire: IT Professionals say web filtering will not operate ,
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By Stuart Corner
Monday, 27 October 2008 ten:eleven
IT Coverage - Federal government Tech Coverage
The Rudd Govt arrived to power final November with two significant communications coverage initiatives with the leading of its agenda: the Countrywide Broadband Network and ISP-based Web filtering. Equally are in trouble,
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The Government's ISP-level filtering regime is coming in for severe criticism from civil libertarians around the grounds that it will quantity to 'censorship' and in the Internet community within the grounds that none with the proposed technologies will operate without severely downgrading end-users' World wide web encounter.
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microsoft Office 2010 License, SAGE-AU (the System Administrators Guild of Australia), a not-for-profit expert organisation representing technique administrators in Australia - has added its voice of authority for the discussion claiming that filtering is impractical and accusing Conroy's workers of making use of underhand tactics towards one particular of its members.
President Donna Ashelford said: "The Government's own figures indicate that all of the filtering systems trialled would impact Internet performance, as well as availability of legitimate services to varying degrees."
She stressed that SAGE-AU's position within the issue of Web filtering was "based purely to the technical feasibility of an Net filtering solution," and not around the questions of censorship.
"Specifically SAGE-AU remains concerned that the filters tested are unable to provide an effective, reliable filtering solution with the performance required for modern broadband connections."
The Govt is also under fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded techniques in attempted to silence 1 of its members,
Office Home And Business, Mark Newton, an employee of Internode, who has been 1 from the most outspoken critics with the proposed scheme to the Whirlpool online forum.
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