[LINK] Green light for internet filter plans

Adrian Chadd adrian at creative.net.au
Tue Dec 15 20:02:47 AEDT 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> On 2009/Dec/15, at 8:49 AM, Andy Farkas wrote:
> 
> > <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/15/2772467.htm>
> >
> > "Our pilot, and the experience of ISPs in many western democracies,
> > shows that ISP level-filtering of a defined list of URLs can be
> > delivered with 100 per cent accuracy,"
> >
> > Uh-huh.
> 
> How does 100% accuracy square with the "some" in this quote:
> > The pilot demonstrated that implementation of filtering additional  
> > categories of content can also block some common circumvention  
> > techniques.
> >

Its completely correct - the filter apparently blocked 100% of the
specific list given by ACMA, versus the "other categories" which were
tested.



Adrian




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