Oz Firewall still standing after inconclusive filter trial

Idiocy-Ur doin it rite

Conroy needs to be stretched over a server rack and flogged with a CAT'0'9 tails

I can't stand Elvis so i think that anything anywhere on the net that has Elvis on it should be removed,Oh,and i don't really like Custard either,get rid of that too.

/sarc

Seriously,the morons that are in control shouldn't be allowed to make decisions any more important than what colour socks they are wearing that day.

Even then i think that would be a stretch for them..

{Paris comment here}

Ridiculous

They think that implementing a layer of blocking that doesn't work, is proper use of peoples time, energy and tax payers money. There are very few occasions these days that I am glad that I live in the UK, but this is one of them.

Sham, sham, egg, chips and sham

I love this:

"Webshield managing director, Anthony Pillion, said his entire customer base of a few thousand end-users experienced no slow-down in Internet speeds whatsoever."

Given that Webshield only offers a filtered service anyway it's would be a great surprise if anyone noticed anything untoward. For those not familiar with Webshield, it is run by a religious cult known as Christadelphians and they make up the majority of WebShield's customers. I bet it doesn't filter out pictures of naked men nailed to wooden crosses, which I feel sure would fall foul of the new "extreme pr0n" laws in the UK.

Mr Pillion is also on the government's Cyber-Safety Consultative Working Group. The words "conflict", "interest", "of" and "are you taking the piss?" spring to mind. Take anything that Pillock says with a truck full of salt.

Government "success"...

... In other words "Let's not tell anyone exactly what we want, then we can spin what happens as a success"...

Morons.

Rest assurred that the first sites I will complain are offensive to me all end in *.gov.au and in particular ato.gov.au (Australian Tax Office)

They can filter all they want till the **** **** home, but until they post the list in public view it will simply be used as a **** for political ******** and ****.

**** *** ***** ******* *** ** *********** ** *** ***** *****. F|_|C|< |-|34d5

*sigh*

On behalf of intelligent Australia's I am really sorry about this.

Had I known they had this in mind, I would have never voted for the bastards.

If they bring in the firewall, the first thing I will be doing, is setting up a 443 proxy for my Aussie friends, so they can get around this thing. I currently reside in the land of the free (Canada). I will be making every effort to help me fellow Australians bypass this stupid and evil filter system.

Yes, It is evil, because this is not about protecting the children, it never was, its about control of the people.

The problem with filters is who gets to decide.

Now I'm sure that Mr Conroy would like to have the unfiltered results of the test.... but unfortunately I've decided that the results of said test may be sexist, racist, politically incorrect and/or related to kiddie porn, so Mr Conroy will have to make do with the following "filtered" result: 42.

Thanks for playing.

When a tool's a TOOL....

The fact that folks don't realise is that Oz is NOT a Democracy but a Dictatorship, and the drugs will be taking effect soon my son. The reality is that the minister is a complete and utter tool of the highest degree isn't lost on the press, or anyone else here. He seems to have more body "exits" than most, given the shower of sh*t that comes from him routinely.

The fact is most folks here ain't bothered about the Internet, it was just 3-4 years ago that the (at the time) only fibre into Oz from Singapore was caught by an anchor and broken. So what the minister is proposing in his uber-right-wing stupidity is the same thing.

REALOz ISP's, and i use that term smartly are not on the trials, refused to be on the trials, and have steadfastly said they believe filtering is down to the end user / parent and NOT encumbering the ISP.

But, at the end of the day, the gubmnt here wears jackboots and jodhpur's and it'll all be allright on the day. Or we'll jail you for dissent.

FFS

Most days I can barely suppress the rage having to deal with retards that can't work out which end of the keyboard they should be using, but I'm about to go supernova when I read about fuckwits like this.

Now I find myself living in a province of china rather than a democratric society that enjoys the freedom of speech

CONROY suck on this

@Combat Wombat

Umm, it was a clearly described election promise put foward during the campaign.

What you meant to say "Had I have paid any attention during the election campaign I may not have done the kneejerk "vote out the Libs" thing along with the rest of the sheeple in this god forsaken country.

*NB This is not to say that I voted Liberal myself. Or Labor although I do hate Labor ideology a bit more than I hate that of the lying turd rags on the other side. Suffice to say they should all be taken out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and dumped overboard.

Conroy you're wasting my hard-earned tax dollars you twerp!

Protect the Children my a**!

You want to protect kids from pron.. then don't let them use the net unsupervised.

Your REALLY want to protect them - give the money your going p*ss up the wall to the police who can go and find these people.

It's all about control and rhetoric and sweet FA about dealing with the issues..

short-sighted numpties!

It's all that god-fellas fault you know!

If it weren't for that jehovah bloke, we wouldn't be in this pickle.

The Aus govt is beholden to the church of the crazy, the cult of death, the fundies of forever...

Makes you kinda mad!

Conroy

"If the trial shows it cannot be done without slowing the internet down, then we will not do it."

*SHOCKEROONIE!*

But surely the Safety of the Children (TM) is more important than the speeds of the interwebs?!

What a stupid twat.

@ Goat Jam

"Umm, it was a clearly described election promise put foward during the campaign."

Wanna bet on that? What they actually said was this:

"A Rudd Labor Government will require ISPs to offer a ‘clean feed’ internet service to all homes, schools and public internet points accessible by children, such as public libraries."

Note the word "offer" and the implication that it isn't mandatory and only applying to certain locations. Don't believe me? From the horse's mouth: http://www.alp.org.au/download/now/labors_plan_for_cyber_safety.pdf

And they still can't spell Labour...

Connections

I wondered why K Rudd had that secret meeting with China's propaganda chief.

let me see

If I read this correctly, they have applied the filter to a few 1000 users, however the internet users number in the millions, as do the illicit websites, thus extrapolating the results from this trial is like seeing a hole in a wall, and guessing how did it get there.

I've been involved in too many trials, where you do the 10, 50, 100, 200, 500 tests, and everything appears linear, and people then assume you can extrapolate to 10 000, 100 000 because it was linear until 500, there it must be the same from there on in.

Unfortunately, in the limit of small numbers, an exponential curve may indeed be linear, for the sample, however once you exceed small limited numbers, the load and delays often go exponential.

So say you do a small test with 1000 sites, and 1000 users, nxm is only 1000 000 matrix.. However extrapolate to 1000 000 000 sites x 1000 000 users, and hmm, 1 E+15 in the data set now.

This is going to be interesting..

Though I still cannot fathom that someone can even consider the idea that they know better what OTHER adults should be allowed to see, than the adults them selves ?