[LINK] the Bill Henson 'mistake' - Conroy

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:58 AM 27/03/2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>it was a "technical issue".

I recorded the ABC program and watched it this morning. Honestly, I 
didn't think Senator Con did a bad job. [ducks flying bricks from 
some Linkers] By 'technical', it wasn't a computer type technical as 
he explained it. It was more a screw-up between the Classification 
board determination and someone in ACMA who missed the change.

That SMH story is pretty weak. For example:

Three of Australia's biggest internet service providers have 
withdrawn from the government's proposed internet service filter, 
including Telstra.
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Uh, no, they didn't withdraw from anything. They just didn't choose 
to participate in the trials. Conroy said Optus has agreed to 
participate in future. Anyone here know the facts on this?

re:
But the minister admitted that a PG-rated site, featuring images of 
children by controversial photographer Bill Henson, was wrongly 
blocked because of a "technical issue".

Political lobby group GetUp! says this demonstrated the failure of 
internet filtering.

"The minister's comments have proven internet censorship just won't 
work," GetUp! national director Simon Sheikh told AAP.
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Uh, no. It demonstrated that a list of banned URLs can be leaked. If 
they were in operation in a border filtering system, you could click 
all you wanted and not get through to them UNLESS you activated a 
bypass of some sort. It demonstrated that wrong URLs can be added to 
the list, meaning over blockage.

That story is unattributed and must be written by a junior. It reads 
like that, too. Just an AAP attribution.

Jan



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