On the Death of the Clean Feed

[kirby1024]

So yes, I'm obviously pleased as punch that the cards have lined up just so in order to stop the government from continuing with the Clean Feed.

But I have one, teensy little question.

Why, pray tell, did it have to take an unholy alliance of Liberals and Greens and Xenophon to put this thing down?

The government's own feasibility reports showed that in order to do what the government wanted, it would have to slow down Internet access in Australia by an absurd amount, and even then wouldn't even kill the main distribution channels by which the offending material gets shared on.

But they kept going on regardless.

No poll on the Clean feed from anyone showed a majority of Australians supported it. Huge swaths of child-rights groups, censorship groups, technology groups, citizens groups and other special interest groups were yelling at the government that they were doing it wrong.

But they kept going on regardless.

At every single step, the government was told "This Is Wrong, It Will Not Work, Don't Do This", and yet at every step they kept going.

What. The. Hell.

Comments

Re: Follow the money

[goatsfoot.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm an expert on it, but didn't they only intend to block port 80 traffic, at least for now, which excludes P2P? They would have blocked every torrent search engine they could have found though, not of course that that would have done ANYTHING, especially to inbuilt search engine protocols such as ed2k.

Copyright lobbyists have a pretty strong influence, it's pretty scary in the US, and how they influenced pulling down of thepiratebay for a short time without legal jurisdiction.

Ugh. Good riddance to the no clean feed. I can stop papering my local cafe now.