Senator Stephen Conroy seems to think that anyone who disagrees with him thinks it does. And so do his lackeys! The fact is that ISP filters similar to the British system that Mr Conroy thinks so highly of slows performance by up to 78%! Add to this the cost of implementing the system, and you…
I wrote yesterday about Kevin Rudd’s Labor Government’s proposal to build the Great Firewall Of Australia (as named by Des Walsh), and its potential for misuse. I misnamed the post, and called it: ‘How To CensorThe Internet One Country At A Time’. As Des Walsh says, this isn’t an issue just for Australia, it is…
I wrote an article a short time ago titled: How Facebook Is Killing Careers Before They Start, but in retrospect maybe I should have called it ‘How some people are using Facebook to kill their careers!’ Guy Kawasaki recently made a similar on Truemors. It has been reported that employers are now using information gained…
Australian Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says that new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites. Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and…
