[LINK] ACS new? submission on ISP filtering

[Kim Holburn]

There was a slashdot article a few days ago :

http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/339394/filter_trial_vendor_sceptical_over_internet_clean-feed/?fp=4194304&fpid=1
Filter trial vendor sceptical over Internet clean-feed

> Internet filtering won't prevent people deliberately looking for  
> inappropriate material from accessing blocked content, according to  
> security vendor, M86 Security.

...

> "When the filter was first launched 10 years ago, I don't think  
> anybody would have thought it would be applied on a national scale,"  
> M86 COO, Bruce Green, said.
>
> "We talk hundreds of thousands of users and even the biggest  
> enterprise might have half a million. Now we’re talking about  
> millions of users when you go into the consumer section and it was  
> never really designed for that purpose."
>



On 2010/Mar/18, at 9:02 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> Just saw this. It's undated, so I don't know how 'new' it is. But it
> does appear to be more critical and constructive of the proposed
> filtering system. (sorry Philip)
>
> http://www.acs.org.au/attachments/ACSSUBMISSIONtoGovtRC.pdf
>
> Jan
>
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