Jerk of the Week: Senator Conroy
Really, he should have been first cab off the rank. For wanting to censor the internet, Mr Conroy, you are Jerk of the week!
Thankfully, according to this article:
And the 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”. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised policy.
It was never going to work, it was a bad idea in the first place and should have been dropped as soon as it became apparent that the technology to do this just didn’t exist.
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What a load of balderdash, the upcoming trial does involve live clients. I work with an ISP doing the trial and the documentation is clear on this being a live but opt-in/opt-out participation testing.
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No idea where they are getting their info for their quotation of government sources. No citations, no sources, zero.
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It could have been the cleaning lady saying that…
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Read the docs yourself perhaps before quoting some shonky anonymous source:
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_consumers/funding_programs__and__support/cyber-safety_plan/internet_service_provider_isp_filtering/isp_filtering_live_pilot/questions_and_answers
Here is a quotation with an actual source:
4. Can an ISP participate without the involvement of actual customer accounts? For example, would it be possible to only provide Enex TestLab with filtered and unfiltered test accounts?
It is intended that every participant in the Pilot will involve actual customer accounts. However, if—in addition to a live customer component—an ISP proposes other approaches for testing particular aspects of filtering or network performance, the Department will consider these where they could provide useful information to supplement that gained from the live customer component.
You get the actual Trial docs here, “hidden” on the front page of Conroy’s website, lol. For the geniuses that cannot find that in the “innenett”, follow this link folks:
http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_consumers/funding_programs__and__support/cyber-safety_plan/internet_service_provider_isp_filtering/isp_filtering_live_pilot
The secret documents have been securely coded in Word and PDF format, so that the public can be easily hoodwinked about the trial…. Ho ho ho…
Do I think that the proposed filtering to date has been well handled: no. Do I trust a government with unfettered control over the internet: no.
Do I believe that an Australian government can turn our Internet into a Chinese version of control: What a load of naïve codswallop, lol. I have worked in the Internet industry since 1995, I was a programmer when most of you were in nappies, I was building networks when many of you were watching ABC For Kids. There is no viable and functioning technology available that would allow a government in democratic Australia to do that in the manner China does that. We would know immediately should they even try that, and we can cross-track page contents within minutes if not second from myriad international co-operative partners.
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And BTW: You cannot get false positives from Blacklists, you can only get false entries in the Blacklist. A false positive is when the filtering system errs in categorization. ACMA can make web-page entry errors, but even they would *rarely* get that wrong as all entries are triple checked by humans for accuracy, and are based on citizen complaints. The base ACMA list is a Blacklist, compiled in that manner. The performance degradation with carrier grade “In the Cloud” content filter providers is today far less than PC based consumer products.
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Check your facts first, or get some access to them, before slathering off about and publishing misinformation about what is just being trialled here…
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Thanks for your comments mike – all be it a little over the top considering my main point is the Conroy wins “Jerk of the Week” this week.
That the trials will not involve actual customers came from Conroy himself – not “some shonky anonymous source”. Those that have written to him about the proposal (myself included) have all received a standard response from Conroy. It’s the letter that is quoted above.
Moreover, I don’t appreciate your patronising tone on my blog kind sir.
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I think you’ve found next week’s Jerk
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I love ABC for kids, it taught me modesty and respect for others… Mike, you must have missed that program cos you were to busy throwing “lightening bolts”.
I love jerk of the week, 10 points for each jerk