It's been revealed that it won't be illegal to circumvent the Australian Government's proposed mandatory Internet filter, so today I show you how. There are also unintended consequences for business from this revelation
Also a couple of questions from viewers on country level domain best practice for ranking.
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Below is a response from Liberal Senator Julian McGauran to my question on whether the Libs would block the Internet filter legislation in the Senate.
Dear Mr Stewart
I wish to acknowledge your email of 10 March 2010 regarding internet filtering.
Thank you for bringing your views to my attention. Rest assured I will
raise your concerns in the appropriate forums of the Liberal Party.
I have received many emails and letters on this issue supporting this position.
Regards
Julian
Julian McGauran
Senator for Victoria
Suite 17 Collins Place
45 Collins Street
MELBOURNE VIC 3000
I'm still waiting for a response from Mark Dreyfus my local member. He had said previously to me in public he though filtering the Internet was impossible. That was before Conroy announced they were pushing ahead with it last December.
Speed is becoming a major issue as is hosting
reliability when it comes to good google
rankings. One of our clients got a massive
boost in their rankings
this week when we changed their hosting
company. Today I have a look at a couple of
ways you can check if your hosting company is
adversely affecting your rankings.
What is long tail & how do I find it? I
show you a couple of ways you can find new
high converting keyword markets.
Senator
Conroy, (like any politician) is attempting
to shape the message on ISP filtering, to the
point where he has filtered it from his own
site. Now he is breaking copyright as well
according to the author of the code he is
using. That's what happens when you try to
control the message online. It ends up
backfiring. It's not a passive medium.
Are you still worried about Page Rank? Don't be. This week I explain why.
Got wwws? Do you really need them? What is best practice with subdomains?
Senator Conroy now wants to protect you from YouTube. Apparently he met with Google to discuss. So this week I continue my series on how to get stephen-conroy.com no.1 for the phrase "stephen conroy"
Google is behaving very whacky lately. I'm getting Gmail news alerts on
content that is months old, the index not updating as fast as it used
to & Google is cool with blackhat techniques it would seem.
Fairfax Blackhat SEO
Fairfax & OMG responded last week to my vid on Fairfax Blackhat SEO . This week we do a follow up & show you a similar technique on theage.com.au, don't try this at home kids!
Nocleanfeed
The Australian Govt has announced that it intends to push ahead with
its
Internet filter in a monumental waste of tax payers money. This means
that every packet of information that you see on the web has to pass
through a Govt filter first, unless of course you add a "?" to the
address or use the same sorts of tools that human rights campaigners
have to use under oppressive regimes. Of course it still won't block
bittorrent, Usenet, IRC and just about every other internet protocol
out there but at least it will make people THINK the govt is protecting
kids online. Here is what Google has to say about the Australian Govt
filter. Google responds to Mandatory Government Internet Filter
Keyword seasonality
Doing
some simple keyword analysis using Google tools you can quickly find
what is really concerning kids online.
It's also an interesting exercise in seasonal keywords.
Google Privacy
Google this week is also struggling with its motto "do no evil" as
their CEO Eric Schmidt came out and explained that all your data
belongs to them as long as you are using their products.
I also answer some viewer questions.
I just heard this on Twitter from @jimmcslim and had to write about it.
I've been struggling to find a succinct way to express this thought;
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Beautiful.
This is what I have been clumsily trying to explain to anyone who would
listen for the last 10 years.
The Net is a system designed to withstand
a nuclear attack. That is what it was originally for. If Washington got
taken out, the computer network would continue to run. The packets
would find an alternate route to their destination. This concept has evolved to
the people that use the net. They develop tools that take advantage of
this digital egalitarian network and further aid the delivery of
packets to their destination.
This was the case with one of the most
important tools developed for communication behind oppressive regimes.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) developed by Phil Zimmermann, is a Public Key,
Private Key encryption system that allows you to encrypt an email with
the recipient's Public Key which can then only be decrypted by their
Private Key.
The US Government was so scared of this sort of encryption that they
banned its export and placed it in the same category as a nuclear weapon
export. They forbade the export electronically of this technology. In
protest Tshirts were proudly worn by international travelers with the
source code printed on them. Books of the source code were mailed around the
world and re-digitized. The human network first found a way around governments reading our emails (Google "echelon") then they found a way
around distributing the source code.
Censorship is damage and it will be routed around. The Internet continually evolves, just ask the music industry.
I just learned that the first email I received from Steve Waddington was actually a form email first penned by fellow Exetel Director John Linton. Now I understand why it didn't make sense. The contempt these clowns have for their customers is unbelievable. I find it amazing they are
sending an email that tells customers they are being ridiculous.
Senator Stephen Conroy wants to implement an INternet filter to block illegal material and material that is "Harmful and inappropriate for children".
This filter will kill the AU net industry as we know it. It won't work and it will give parents a false sense of security that their children will be protected. They won't be.
