Comments on: Links for 22 December 2008 through 27 December 2008 http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20081227/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:16:06 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20081227/#comment-15083 Stilgherrian Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:01:23 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3062#comment-15083 <strong>@Alex:</strong> You raise a good point. Most people involved in the discussions, even the geekfolk "fighting the good fight", have little real clue about the technical aspects. I will make sure to write this backgrounder some time before 5 January. @Alex: You raise a good point. Most people involved in the discussions, even the geekfolk “fighting the good fight”, have little real clue about the technical aspects. I will make sure to write this backgrounder some time before 5 January.

]]> By: Alex http://stilgherrian.com/daily_links/daily_links_20081227/#comment-15075 Alex Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:29:06 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3062#comment-15075 I am keen to see what you write about the peer-to-peer filtering. I am quite sure some companies in the US throttle torrent traffic. I do not know enough about the topic to make an absolute comment, but surely Conroy could legislate the full-filter equivalent, i.e., "throttle to 0 kb/s". It would seem a heavy thing to do, but can you really rule it out, considering how autocratically the Rudd Government has treated the issue so far? Also, I'll point out this is the logical conclusion of events when the main arguments against filtering is "it won't work, because ..." and not "government filtering of media is ethically wrong!" I am keen to see what you write about the peer-to-peer filtering. I am quite sure some companies in the US throttle torrent traffic. I do not know enough about the topic to make an absolute comment, but surely Conroy could legislate the full-filter equivalent, i.e., “throttle to 0 kb/s”.

It would seem a heavy thing to do, but can you really rule it out, considering how autocratically the Rudd Government has treated the issue so far?

Also, I’ll point out this is the logical conclusion of events when the main arguments against filtering is “it won’t work, because …” and not “government filtering of media is ethically wrong!”

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