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Aussie Internet Filtering Plan to Include P2P Traffic

By soulxtc

Government to "examine how technology can assist in filtering internationally-hosted content." We've covered the situation in Australia quite extensively here at Zeropaid. It all started as a voluntary effort to "protect children," but quickly spiraled into an all out attempt by the Australian govt to make it mandatory for ISPs to filter the Internet of all "inappropriate content" and "offensive and illegal material." It quickly deteriorated from an attempt to somehow safeguard children from things like child pornography to things like legal pornography and gambling and has made Australian citizens rightly upset. Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy, the main proponent of the plan, has now launched a blog on the Australian Govt's Dept of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy website in order to promote the heavily criticized plan that threatens to reduce Internet connection speeds by 87% and institute a system of censorship with no oversight.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).