[LINK] Green light for internet filter plans
rene
rene.lk at libertus.net
Thu Dec 17 14:18:00 AEDT 2009
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:00:11 GMT, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> It appears that if the film industry (AFACT) win their current iiNet
> ISP court case, then ISPs will be forced to implement filters. Maybe
> Senator Conroy has inside info that AFACT may indeed win, and hence,
> is 'getting in early' regarding widescale Aussie ISP filtering?
There has long been speculation from some quarters that the govt's
mandatory blocking plan is being backed/influenced/whatever by AFACT etc
and that it's really about blocking copyright infringement downloads.
Imo, that's a distraction from the real issues, and it's highly unlikely
that copyright infringement has anything whatsoever to do with the govt's
mandatory censorship/blocking 'plan'. Even *if* it does, there is *zero* in
existing BSA net censorship legislation which would enable the government
to require ISPs to block alleged copyright infringement material, and there
is no means of changing that with legislative amendments, passed by the
Senate, which would also have to give some government agency or government
approved 'independent body' power to somehow determine that any particular
file/material breaches copyright in the circumstances for which it is
published and/or downloaded by any particular person.
All indications to date are the government's intentions are plainly
censorship of material/information that is controversial for reasons that
have nothing whatsoever to do with copyright.
Irene
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