[clug] [Protest] Anybody up to organise it?

[Neill Cox]

I don't know.  Handing the government the ability to filter the internet for
content they consider inappropriate seems fairly draconian.  Mandatory ISP
level filtering seems pretty likely to have a significant impact on access
speeds. It may not destroy the degital economy but it looks like it would
definitely have a negative impact.

I'm too lazy to read back through this entire thread now so I'm just going
to inlude some links.  Apologies if they've already been included:

GetUp petition: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
EFA Analysis: http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/
EFA Press Release:
http://www.efa.org.au/2008/01/02/media-release-efa-attacks-clean-feed-proposal/


I was going to include links to Senator Conroy's press releases, but
amusingly he seems to have allowed senatorconroy.com to lapse.  It's now a
parked page.  I think this is inidicative of the level of care and knowledge
Senator Conroy brings to this debate.

Cheers,
Neill



On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net> wrote:

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> Sunnz wrote:
> | There has been organised a nation wide protest against the internet
> | censorship at 13 Dec... but Canberra has no organiser yet, anyone feel
> | that they are up for it? Link:
> |
> | http://www.nocleanfeedforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15&p=751
> |
> I have to disagree with the hyperbole in the GetUp proposal.  Calling it
> 'draconian' and 'hold back the digital economy' are rather over-the-top.  I
> don't feel I can morally sign up to that.
>
> Just my thoughts,
>
> Paul
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