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Australian Govt Backing Away from Plans to Censor the Internet?

By soulxtc

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy now says scheduled "live" trials will be "a closed network test and will not involve actual customers," making the results worthless since they won't indicate a real-world impact. With Australians scheduled to hold massive rallies throughout their country this Saturday, December 13th, to protest govt plans for mandatory Internet filters, it's welcome news to learn that their widespread opposition may have finally forced Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, the one behind the plan, and others to take notice. For today it's being reported that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has written to critics saying that the so-called "live" trials would be "a closed network test and will not involve actual customers." Considering that live trials were necessary to counter previous lab tests in which not only did the filters not block "inappropriate content" as desired , but whereby network speeds were diminished by up to a staggering 87%, the fact that live trials will no longer be conducted surely means that the govt is now backing away from the heavily criticized policy. Australian ISPs have inflicted blows of their own to the mandatory filtering proposals with Telstra and Internode now saying that they would not take part in the trials, iiNet previously offering to cooperate only to show just "how stupid it is," and Optus testing only a heavily scaled model.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).