Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force, the drab-named Technical Observations on ISP Based Filtering of the Internet, will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.
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Here's Conroy's dilemma — and none of this will be changed by the forthcoming results of internet filtering trials, whatever those results are. This is a political issue, not a technical one.
Labor came into government with a plan for cyber-safety (PDF) that included "a mandatory 'clean feed' internet service for all homes, schools and public computers that are used by Australian children".
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