Comments on: Why Clean Feed Internet Plans Are Wrong

By: Peter Wills

Peter Wills — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:13:09 +0000

Everyone including governments, corporations, educational & other government institutions, community organisations and consumers should be encouraged or required to use OpenDNS which filters incoming Internet traffic at the DNS level. It has actually also been shown to slightly increase browsing speed in some cases.

By: Pluto

Pluto — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:08:28 +0000

There is nothing that a Government, any Government would like more than to be able to dip into everyones data, personal or otherwise. The fact that it wants to do this, under a Labor Gov't, is more than just ludicrous- it demonstrates just how little disregard public servants and elected members have for personal privacy. Worse, it shows how little the public care about the most precious resource since running water was piped in and out of homes. That the pollies think they can get away with this indicates that public opinion is yet to wake up to make it past its own ambivelence and apathy.

Not only is it unworkable, impractical and costly, this is uncalled for. Where are we living? Is Kevin Rudd about to make Australia another province of China?

How can our government be trusted to keep third parties (ie invited or uninvited 3rd parties) out of the information they glean from our pipes?

By: Reuben

Reuben — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:14:39 +0000

I sincerely hope that they do drop this soon, especially with all the controversy around it.

The only thing is I wonder how much coverage it actually perceives, obviously most of the tech savvy crowd would know about it, but what about everyone else?