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Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 16 Dec 2009, 13:49
by Spawn_Retard
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/12/1 ... comment948
The Australian Federal Government has announced today it will introduce an amendment to the Broadcasting Services Act, which by 2011 will require all internet service providers in the country to implement and activate filtering technology.
GG guys.
Enjoy your freedom while you can
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 16 Dec 2009, 15:41
by Andrej
Enjoy your freedom while you can
EXCEPT THIS GUY LOZL
http://bit.ly/5E1Pir
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 16 Dec 2009, 22:35
by PicassoCT
Well, well, well - good news everyone, as everyone knows you travell every day a few miles to work, taking your hitec-cellphone along passing while travelling dozens of other cellphones(on slightly diffrent routinetours to work) and another dozen wirless lan spots. So what if somebody maps this walking web, gets something we always called p2p into a cellphone to cellphone trafficking device?
Thats right kids, no more providers, just trafficers, passing the encrypted ball towards the goal. Enjoy your censorship, with nobody around to censor.
2:1 Intertubes: Govermentals
Intertubes haz Ballz!
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 16 Dec 2009, 23:11
by CarRepairer
PicassoCT wrote:Well, well, well - good news everyone, as everyone knows you travell every day a few miles to work, taking your hitec-cellphone along passing while travelling dozens of other cellphones(on slightly diffrent routinetours to work) and another dozen wirless lan spots. So what if somebody maps this walking web, gets something we always called p2p into a cellphone to cellphone trafficking device?
Thats right kids, no more providers, just trafficers, passing the encrypted ball towards the goal. Enjoy your censorship, with nobody around to censor.
2:1 Intertubes: Govermentals
Intertubes haz Ballz!
Do you have a blog? I'd love to read it.
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 16 Dec 2009, 23:35
by Forboding Angel
Dude what the fuck? Are politicians so stupid to believe that they are honestly going to get away with this? Hell I'm from america, I was under the impression that we had some of the brightest and most idiotic rising star dumbass politicians on the planet, but this douchebag takes the cake.
GG Aussies, you'll be missed :-/
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 00:26
by bartvbl
Forboding Angel wrote:most idiotic rising star dumbass politicians on the planet, but this douchebag takes the cake.
GG Aussies, you'll be missed :-/
As they say:
the politicians represent their people..
In holland we got this damn annoying guy as well. "Wilders" in case anone knows him. He has sad some terribly racistic things, comes with the most ridiculous ideas, and can only say what others do wrong. Oh yes: he has this ugly face...
http://jelleberghuis.files.wordpress.co ... ilders.jpg
Now the bad part: about 35% of the dutch people love him
On the subject of the censoring: if they censor malware only I am really happy :D
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 05:06
by Spawn_Retard
censoring child pornography is just one stepping stone in what hundreds of things they could actually end up blocking.
As soon as its implemented they can pick and choose what you see, i wouldn't be surprised if countries will block certain media sites to stop bad press about them.
What i find funny is all the people that are still denying this is actually coming about.
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 05:39
by Gota
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 06:17
by Spawn_Retard
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 09:31
by ginekolog
poor Ausies, they should revolt imo. And hang ppls with such ideas with UTP cables

Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 10:14
by Forboding Angel
Wouldn't twisted pair be slightly more appropriate?
Plus hanging by TP makes me chuckle

Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 11:54
by bartvbl
+1
you can always use tunneling to an SSH server abroad to get things done

Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 13:12
by Gedanken
The govt. sell all the uranium (the only truly decent mineral deposits) without enrichment to plutonium, send our best scientists overseas, outsource major infrastructure projects to American/European companies and have education as one of the major exports. WTF. Plus, the place is full of right-wing Catholic fundamentalists like Senator Conroy. Life can be easy here, but you are starved for any kind of cultural input (one decent masters exhibition all year, and it's in Canberra, one of the least accessible cities you can imagine AND IT'S THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL). Also, racism. So yeah, can't wait to leave this heinous, boorish backwater
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 20:49
by AF
Why the hell would you censor child porn?
If you have the technology to detect child porn would you really block it? Why of course you could er just... prosecute the people running the website...
Rephrasing the Australian stance:
Its okay to run/profit from/host child porn websites, but we'll prosecute your customers if they go to look at it
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 23:53
by Das Bruce
AF wrote:Rephrasing the Australian stance:
Its okay to run/profit from/host child porn websites, but we'll prosecute your customers if they go to look at it
Don't be a fuckwit AF, you know they go after producers and distributors as well.
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 00:20
by AF
Actally the UK is responsible for nuking a large number of those =p
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 04:25
by Das Bruce
What?
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 05:32
by 1v0ry_k1ng
shit guiz bust Choppa Reid outta jail and call up the internets, we must fight
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 11:20
by SwiftSpear
If they go by white lists god help you all, you've just lost access to spring, and pretty much everything good about the internet. If they go by black lists God help them because they've already lost the battle.
Re: Australian government to censor the internet by 2011
Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 15:20
by Spawn_Retard
SwiftSpear wrote:If they go by white lists god help you all, you've just lost access to spring,
And nothing of value was lost.
Well except juzza.