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The Rudd Govt came to power last November with two main communications coverage initiatives with the best of its agenda: the National Broadband Network and ISP-based World wide web filtering. The two are in trouble,
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The Government's ISP-level filtering regime is coming in for serious criticism from civil libertarians on the grounds that it'll amount to 'censorship' and through the Internet community to the grounds that none with the proposed technologies will work without having severely downgrading end-users' Net knowledge.
Now, SAGE-AU (the Method Administrators Guild of Australia), a not-for-profit professional organisation representing system administrators in Australia - has added its voice of authority towards the discussion claiming that filtering is impractical and accusing Conroy's employees of using underhand ways in opposition to 1 of its members.
President Donna Ashelford said: "The Government's own figures indicate that all of the filtering systems trialled would impact Internet performance, as well as availability of legitimate services to varying degrees."
She stressed that SAGE-AU's position around the issue of Net filtering was "based purely to the technical feasibility of an Internet filtering solution," and not to the questions of censorship.
"Specifically SAGE-AU remains concerned that the filters tested are unable to provide an effective, reliable filtering solution with the performance required for modern broadband connections."
The Federal government is also underneath fire from SAGE-AU for alleged unhanded techniques in attempted to silence one of its members, Mark Newton,
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