NSW Director of Public Prosecutions bags Rudd Government internet filtering plan and WA Catholic bishop boos GetUp!

A bit of an update on the Australian national mandatory ISP-level Internet filtering debate.

Never one to hold back, The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has slammed the Federal Government's internet censorship policy, saying it will have very limited, if any, success in achieving its aims according to Asher Moses in The Sydney Morning Herald on 5 August 2009.

Three days earlier the Catholic Bishop of Bunbury sent out a letter to his sisters and brothers in Christ which accused GetUp! of undermining Government efforts and supporting the porn industry.

He also claimed that predatory Internet Service Providers (presumably industry cousins to Bigpond, iPrimus, iiNet, TPG Internet et al) are deliberately creating technology to break through home internet filters used by parents and helpfully supplies a letter template for his flock to use when writing to another brother the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, expressing support for a national censorship scheme.