{"id":725,"date":"2010-06-09T06:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-06-09T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T00:51:38","slug":"labor-senator-kate-lundy-gets-it-right-on-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Labor Senator Kate Lundy gets it mostly right on internet censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/katelundy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Senator Kate Lundy has revised her opinion on Labor&#8217;s internet filtering policy and is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katelundy.com.au\/2010\/06\/08\/my-thoughts-on-an-opt-in-filter\/\">advocating opt-in<\/a>, with the default being unfiltered.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, ma&#8217;am. This allows parents to parent and preserves freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Will Labor Caucus listen before it&#8217;s too late?<\/p>\n<p>Not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<p>However, ISP level filters are still much more circumventable than a filtering application installed on a properly configured PC. Parents should not rely solely on any ISP based filtering apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>There also remains the danger that if a government imposed filtering system is implemented in ISPs that some government may literally flip a switch and make it mandatory for all users.<\/p>\n<p>Rudd could pick up an easy 10% in his flagging poll numbers just by putting Conroy on the backbench and installing Lundy as Communications Minister. It could make the difference between winning and losing the next election.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, a better idea for Labor would be withdraw internet censorship permanently and entirely from the legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kate Lundy has revised her opinion on Labor&#8217;s internet filtering policy and is now advocating opt-in, with the default being unfiltered. Yes, ma&#8217;am. This allows parents to parent and preserves freedom of expression. Will Labor Caucus listen before it&#8217;s too late? Not holding my breath. However, ISP level filters are still much more circumventable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}