[MLB-WIRELESS] Government Internet Filter - What do you think?

[Sunnz]

2008/12/11 Tyson Clugg <tyson at melbournewireless.org.au>:
> broadband.  Leaving only webshield.net.au, which look pretty good if you
> actually want content filtering.  Data plans are shaped (no excess usage
> fees), and they're a not for profit - hence the prices don't look too horrid
> considering the service they offer.  $52.95 per month gets 12 gig per month,
> 256K downstream 64K upstream, shaped to 64K downstream.  All sorts of
> filtering options (eg: time based filtering for individual sites and
> services) and supposedly the support is good too.  Lots of other plans
> available too, including dial-up and high speed.  Going to a 8000K/384K
> costs $87.95 and gets you 10 gigabytes per month.  They even support
> fast-churn.
>

Yet they don't even have https on their sign up form, it seems like
they only have a SSL cert for their webmail service... that's a bit
doggy to me... are all filtering likemind people just ignore the
importance of internet security? Yet they are claiming to protect the
users? That's a bit hypocritical if you ask me...

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