Adam Internet runs filter tests
- 19 July, 2010 08:05
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Adam Internet has started running its own Internet filter tests.
The news comes after Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, announced the plan to implement a mandatory ISP-level filter has been delayed to next year until a refused classification (RC) report has been completed.
An interim voluntary “child porn filter” has been adopted by Telstra, Optus and iPrimus while a number of ISPs including iiNet, Internode and Adam Internet have yet to join the big three.
Adam Internet managing director, Scott Hicks, doubted the efficacy of the URL-based filter. The company has no intention of adding the filter at the moment and will be watching out for new developments in the Internet filtering plans.
“I’ve only seen one report [the Internet filter trial Enex Testlab report] on it and it suggested a filter will not degrade the Internet, which I find a little hard to believe,” he said. “We’re just waiting and seeing; we’ve done a little bit of testing in the lab ourselves but at this point in time, we are just waiting to be told what the process from here on in is going to be.”
Adam Internet has begun testing some Internet filtering equipment but Hicks could not disclose the name of the products being used.
“There are no results to tell yet,” he said. “We are certainly preparing ourselves if [the mandatory filter] is around the corner because there will be hardware requirement and significant changes to our network required in making sure we are capable of doing what is required.”
Hicks said he didn't feel any pressure to sign up to the voluntary filter despite the involvement of Telstra, Optus and iPrimus.
“Our stance is always that we will do what we are legally bounded to do and we’ll put our opinion in the pie and let everybody know whether we think it is the right thing to do,” he said.
Results of the tests will not be made public.
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Comments
tomtom
stick the filter up ya rompus a$$ conroy! We shall defeat the NWO!
a real person
The people of Australia need their own list. A list of the people voted into government who support censorship of Australians and want to control what you can see online.
This isn't about child pornography. It has been said that the filter will do little to nothing to prevent it, because pedophiles and people who engage in that trade their files through other means that are less traceable.
This censorship plan is about a select group of people telling the voting citizens of Australia that they know what is best for us, and that we should trust them and not question them (or know anything about it). Adolf Hitler would be proud of the tactics used by these people to promote their agenda, putting Australia into the company of North Korea, China, and Iran in terms of censoring the internet and control.
Keep a list of these censorship loving people and vote them out in the next election, before its too late and they make even discussing the censorship list illegal. Its time for people against censorship to do something about it. Ask your elected officials if they support censoring you and tell them you'll be voting who believes in freedom of speech and that the role of the Australian government isn't to dictate a moral agenda upon the citizens who voted them in. Read what's happening in France re: officials who voted in the 3 strikes/kicked off internet law and are now worried about their political lives in the next election. You are in the same boat and goodbye censorship pushers in the next election. The truth is hard for you to handle.
Amos
Looks like another ISP bending over for Conroy.
Ben
@ Amos:
Or another ISP stepping up to the plate to prove to the government that their filter doesn't work. Actions speak louder than words after all.
Arran
well it hasn't affected me yet. Mayby just net nasties. Why do u want access to that?
Marty
I hope they make the results of the test public.
StevoTheDevo
Sounds like it's an internal trial only at Adam, users are not being filtered... The headline is misleading if this is the case.
Scott hicks is repeatedly on record as being anti-filter, as he is again in this article.
Adam will only implement a filter if they see a demand for it, or they are forced by law to implement one.
Running an internal trial on various methods is just good business practice.
dead on arrival
I am dismayed and feel powerless to change this obviously slow persons mind. Religion and politics drives ignorance.
Tom Brown
Ben and Aaron whoever whatever Conroy is to blame and is wrong according to you.
You are wrong! the filter will not kill performance at all and Adam Internet is free to do what they like, there is no law against the trials nor is there going to be some kickback..
There is so much hyperbole about the internet filter by filter critics.
One, the representation of righteous indignation by critics, so very ironic in the context http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_indignation.
Another is about freedom, Australians have no freedoms! There is no law giving freedoms or rights, the only freedom is where there is a lack of prohibition.
The critics do not speak for the diggers who fought in the wars (as the critics pretend to), the diggers were raised Christian (generally), they went to war to protect their Christian beliefs, they would support the censorship that their generation put into place and we have today and they would not appreciate the references to Christianity.
We have a new medium, the same laws apply to it, the filter is an acknowledgement of those boundaries. I remember a few decades ago when there was a significant push to ensure printed porn was not placed in easy reach and view of children at newsagents, there was a lot of criticism then too. Newsagents would place the material at children's eye level, they were requested to move it to a non visible place.That it is still often placed in a very public and visible way does not make that display desirable from community perspective nor some kind of right to do so.
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