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I sure hope one day we will look back on the early age of the internet and even if the debate over illegal content, piracy and privacy and so on is still on goi

I sure hope one day we will look back on the early age of the internet and even if the debate over illegal content, piracy and privacy and so on is still on going, we will at least have settled on one solid fact. Internet filtering doesn't work and people that want to access illegal content will get it anyways. What a waste of money.

dflock 17y ago
I think that from the point of view of global digital society, if this thing fails spectacularly and publicly, it could be money well spent - if it deters other nations from pouring their taxpayers money down this particular drain. Can anyone think of a way to make it fail loudly, rather than quietly?
- roundsquare 17y ago
  I don't like this method, but it might work. Maybe someone can help change it to something that doesn't do harm. 1) Setup a site that the government would want to block. 2) Make sure it gets blocked. 3) Have the site track whenever an aussie logs onto it. 4) Send out an email with statistics on a regular basis to someone. You may want more than one site or find a way to use existing sites, etc... You need to make sure your okay with posting whatever material would qualify though. That might be tough.
  - pwmanagerdied 17y ago
    A problem with this idea is that the easiest ways to get around filters (secure tunnels) would generally result in the connection appearing to come from outside of the country.
clistctrl 17y ago
maybe todays filters don't work, but you never know what tomorrows filters will look like. For instance it might be possible to build an intelligent filter that blocks based on content not address. Maybe it has image recognition etc.
- camccann 17y ago
  The filter you propose is equivalent to Strong AI. If we can do that, we'll probably have bigger things to worry about than filtering the net.
  - clistctrl 17y ago
    Not really, I don't think its a stretch to say you could use todays technology to make an approximation such as age/clothed status the real problem with that kind of filter is processing power. The point is you don't know what the future will bring, we have some good ideas but there's always some uncertainty.
  - Jach 17y ago
    I don't think Strong AI is hardly required for sophisticated filtering based on content. Face recognition is already pretty good, it's not a stretch to go to boob recognition and so forth. As clistctrl mentioned the obstacle is computing power, and connection speeds.

dflock 17y ago

I think that from the point of view of global digital society, if this thing fails spectacularly and publicly, it could be money well spent - if it deters other nations from pouring their taxpayers money down this particular drain. Can anyone think of a way to make it fail loudly, rather than quietly?

roundsquare 17y ago
I don't like this method, but it might work. Maybe someone can help change it to something that doesn't do harm. 1) Setup a site that the government would want to block. 2) Make sure it gets blocked. 3) Have the site track whenever an aussie logs onto it. 4) Send out an email with statistics on a regular basis to someone. You may want more than one site or find a way to use existing sites, etc... You need to make sure your okay with posting whatever material would qualify though. That might be tough.
- pwmanagerdied 17y ago
  A problem with this idea is that the easiest ways to get around filters (secure tunnels) would generally result in the connection appearing to come from outside of the country.

clistctrl 17y ago

maybe todays filters don't work, but you never know what tomorrows filters will look like. For instance it might be possible to build an intelligent filter that blocks based on content not address. Maybe it has image recognition etc.

camccann 17y ago
The filter you propose is equivalent to Strong AI. If we can do that, we'll probably have bigger things to worry about than filtering the net.
- clistctrl 17y ago
  Not really, I don't think its a stretch to say you could use todays technology to make an approximation such as age/clothed status the real problem with that kind of filter is processing power. The point is you don't know what the future will bring, we have some good ideas but there's always some uncertainty.
- Jach 17y ago
  I don't think Strong AI is hardly required for sophisticated filtering based on content. Face recognition is already pretty good, it's not a stretch to go to boob recognition and so forth. As clistctrl mentioned the obstacle is computing power, and connection speeds.