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

[Francis Markham]

Note that his home page is now http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/

Cheers,

Francis

2008/12/5 Neill Cox <neill.cox at ingenious.com.au>

> 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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