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turnbull goes bananas with his internet filter...
Question: When is an internet filter not an internet filter?
Answer: When Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says so.
On Wednesday, the minister announced the government's response to an "online copyright infringement" discussion paper that he and Attorney-General George Brandis put out in late July.
Brandis, famous for his now Walkley award-winning "what is metadata?" interview on Sky News, was notably absent from the announcement bar his name on a media release.
AdvertisementAs part of the reform, the Copyright Act will be changed to enable movie, music and TV show rights holders to seek an order in court to prevent access to overseas websites linking to - or hosting - unauthorised content.
But try to suggest this is a form of internet filter to Turnbull and he'll go bananas.
"That's nonsense, Ben. There's no internet filter here at all. What on earth are you talking about?" Turnbull told me in a teleconference with journalists on Wednesday when I reminded him of the Coalition's pre-election policy not to introduce a filter.
The Liberal Party proposed a filter just days before the September 2013 election to the surprise of Turnbull. He then abandoned the plan.
"Can I just say this to you ... Don't ... I mean, I know the temptation to sort of engage in journalism by click bait is very strong but this is not, repeat, not an internet filter," Mr Turnbull said.
- By Gus Leonisky at 11 Dec 2014 - 8:06pm
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the war is on......
So, now we know: the government’s data retention scheme, ostensibly justified by the scourge of terrorism and crime, is fundamentally linked to the crackdown on file sharing the government has launched at the behest of the copyright industry.
Read more: http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/12/11/governments-full-blown-war-on-the-internet-is-here-at-last/
don't believe much of what they say...
believing anything else would be delusional...But by the 2013 election, more than $6 billion had been spent and only a fraction of the nation was connected.
The Coalition also has a rocky relationship with the scheme: first it pledged to dig the network up, then to build it more cheaply.
Yesterday the Abbott Government settled on a revised deal, buying Telstra's copper and fibre.
It was struck by Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Malcolm Turnbull, have you just brought back the copper network John Howard sold?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: (laughs) Well, what we have done is secured access to the copper network and the hybrid fibre coaxial network that Telstra has, that the Labor Party had paid them many billions of dollars to switch off and de-commission.
And so what we've, without paying Telstra $1 extra, we have been able to secure the right to own those assets, those parts of those networks which we can use then to complete the NBN much sooner and much cheaper for at least $30 billion less.
So that's good news for taxpayers and also very good news for consumers.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2014/s4148583.htm
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What a lot of rot... Especially from Uhlmann "$6 billion had been spent and only a fraction of the nation was connected". Anyone with a degree in engineering and public works would tell you that before connecting people to the sewage, one needs to install THE BIG PIPES... That not many people were connected to the network after $6 billion being spent only mean — and I know it — that the investment was made on the big bits before connecting people... This grandstanding by Uhlmann shows where he comes from: the Liberal (COnservative) side of politics. He is not a journalist boot-lace. Meanwhile, Turnbull carries on with the bullshit about the Liberal (CONservative) NBN being better than Labor's for consumers and taxpayers. It's full-on rubbish of course... Turnbull is selling you a dud that has far lower speed than you need now. He is a hypocrite.
see also: broadbeans speeds... and love is the air...