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Student enrollment in the ISP also showed socioeconomic imbalance—only 27 percent of students from low income families elect to participate in the program...
...result of the scandals, several of Australia's biggest ISPs pulled out of the filtering-software trials and have urged the government to drop the plan. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material but a much wider range of issues, including what the government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste...
...most ill-conceived pile of stupidity by the biggest bunch of cretins that I've ever seen in my life," says Ross Wheeler, CEO of Albury.net.au, a regional ISP, referring to the web-filtering plan. "Every ISP that I know of has either publicly or privately said it's technically and practically impossible." The leak was further black icing on the cake. Among the list's more than 1,000 entries were URLs for child porn, rape and bestiality sites as well as online gambling (some forms of which are illegal in Australia) and gay and straight pornography. But many...
...Perhaps. But France isn't the only country considering such punitive action. In January, Irish ISP Eirecom struck a deal with record companies under which it would ban clients who were found to be illegally downloading music. The U.K. is also contemplating forcing ISPs to disconnect customers tied to online piracy as part of its push to make broadband access universal by 2012. In Brussels, meanwhile, debate rages over the future of network neutrality - the degree of free and equal access to the Internet. Governments and business interests want the ability to increasingly filter its use. (See the 50 best...
...fact, Schuster, who went through the Cambridge public school system, said his parents transferred him when he was in the sixth grade from the Maria L. Baldwin School to the Longfellow School—one of two schools that later merged to become Kennedy-Longfellow—for its ISP option. According to Schuster, the upper grades at Baldwin were not perceived to be as academically strong at the time...