[LINK] ACS new? submission on ISP filtering

[Stilgherrian]

On 18/03/2010, at 10:22 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> There is a comment to that article by a Doug Wilson that says:
>> "If you come across a website that includes these things you can
>> already report it to the ACMA and if they determine that it is
>> illegal in Australia the ACMA will block Australians from getting to
>> it through a Blacklist that Every ISP runs. "
> 
> I don't believe there is any such infrastructure in place at the moment.

On this bit, no there is no infrastructure in "every ISP" to implement the ACMA blacklist. Doug Wilson is wrong.

Yes, you can complain to ACMA. Yes, if the content is found to be prohibited online content and is hosted overseas it is added to the blacklist. But the blacklist is not provided to ISPs. It's provided to the vendors of internet filters, so they can incorporate it into their products. ISPs can then in turn choose to offer a filtered service.

Webshield does so as their business model -- they provide a filtered internet service to schools, businesses and to a lesser extent homes.

Indeed, the entire political debate is about whether ISPs should be required to take on the filtering of (parts of) the ACMA blacklist.

Stil


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