australia vs the internet
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- Nairn0
Fucking terrible. I'd read of this a few times over the past year or so, but stupidly assumed it'd never get through.
I only hope the implementation is fucked up/abused and there's a local outcry against it - otherwise we'll see this kind of shit creep in to other 'Western' states.
- 23kon0
"Internet Service Providers have warned that the glorious filter will slow Australian internet speeds down to that of a three-legged dingo dragging a baby up Ayers’ Rock"
you cant beat aussies for their sayings!
brilliant!I dont have a problem with a filter thing like that in theory because its not as if i look at illegal content online.
However, I could see the government abusing this and using the blacklists to stop people reading about current affairs / news / or finding information about drugs etc.
That certainly WOULD be wrong and would be like the kind of cencorship that the likes of China imposes on its people.- Yet you're pissed off the Polis taking a peek in your bag at the train station?Nairn
- Gucci0
That sucks. Way to go australia... the only good things you've given the world are Paul Hogan and Men at Work.
Oh... wait.
- gentleman0
23Kon - yeah but what happens when the definition of 'illegal content' is out of your hands..
- anxiousarms0
"The government of the former British Penal Colony has developed an internet filtering system and is refusing to allow its citizens to opt out of it."
heh, PENAL
- JazX0
- Jaline0
Gucci, you're forgetting the great actors from Australia. WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CELEBRITIES??!!!
- autoflavour0
I just moved to berlin 4 months ago from Sydney, where i am from.
I have no interest in returning.this is terrible.
watch carefully tho, australia will set precedent, which will be then adopted by the US, UK and EU
pretty soon, we will all be less free.
- autoflavour0
fuck price we pay. get rid of howard, loose basic digital freedoms.
there will be a resurgence of bbs systems.
- October0
apparently this is old news
http://www.australianit.news.com… - testing started feb 2008heres to australia
welcome to 1984
- sultanasandwich0
Crap. Can't work.
Necessity is the mother of innovation.
- sputnik20
wow that's really scary
- flavorful0
I couldn't read past this part, "AUSTRALIA has become the first Western nation to attempt censoring the internet."
Since when has Australia been considered a "Western Nation", haha?
- depends where your standingmistermik
- Not particularly. It's in the Southern/Eastern Hemisphere Quadrant.flavorful
- yeah, western nation. eh..no way. sure, west of new zealand.akrokdesign
- flavorful0
This is absolutely ludicrous by the way.
- mistermik0
it simply cannot be true.
we need hackers to fix this.
- autoflavour0
yes, this is a spoon.. our internet is all based around circular cutlery.
- October0
sad thing is no one will do anything to stop it
old farts dont use the internet
middle aged folks are too busy with their jobs
twentysomethings are too lazy
minors will be told to shut up and stop looking at porn