Via arstechnica.com -
Australia's hugely controversial ISP filtering plan received a lump of Christmas coal in its stocking with the release this week of a new report that points out the many difficulties with such a scheme. The current government's response is to make clear that the report was commissioned by the previous government—which apparently makes it a bit suspect. A live trial of the filtering system has been delayed into January, but it is still going ahead.
"The Government is aware of technical concerns raised in the report, and that is why we are conducting a pilot to put these claims to the test," said Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
The lengthy report was commissioned by the Howard Government back in 2007 and was conducted by the Internet Industry Association. Not that the current government wants you to take the report's points too seriously; Conroy points out that "the report methodology was a literature review of existing studies as well as interviews and surveys. It involved no empirical testing of filtering technology."
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Also this week, Australia's Broadband Minister, Stephen Conroy and his team as removing their blog and all public comments....Way to communicate with the people indeed.
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