Internet Censorship - Trial starting now

There are two fundamental issues I have:

1. the assumption that is it technically possible to guarantee that all child pornography will be blocked by an ISP level filter. I suggest it is not possible - it will simply be routed around and hence the filter becomes useless.

2. the government using the banner of child pornography to insert a completely opaque (ie not accountable to the public) censorship system with no checks-and-balances and no right of appeal. This is not how to run a democracy - this is totalitarianism.

Nobody wants child pornography - but the process for tackling this needs to be clearly separated from political meddling.

I'm all for them trying to implement a filter which only attempts to block child pornography (even though I think it is a waste of time and money from a technical point of view). This is NOT what the Australian government is aiming to implement - their plans go a long way beyond this and so I am totally against it.

Well said.
 
it wont work
scumbags doing anything illegal will just encrypt before torrent/p2p software they are using, and go right on doing what they are doing
what do the adds say, 3 million years to break our cypher..
 
Everything else is regulated, and so should the internet be.
It's just not as "possible" to stop as it is to prevent or stop any other type of illegal activity.
So we should stop chasing the offenders? Make it legal?

Once again for the record, we live in a Monarchy.
Australia is a Monarchy NOT a democracy.
And "freedom of speech" does'nt exist in Australia.
We have no 1st amendment, no bill of rights.
Australians are subjects of the queen and her discendants.
You had a chance to change that, and most did'nt take it.
Australia voted (ironically) against democracy.

balcklist, lmao, fake.

What i do agree on though is that most politicians would not have a clue how to go about it.
 
"Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totalling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban."

Two legs good, four legs baaaaaad.
 
Australians are subjects of the queen and her discendants.
You had a chance to change that, and most did'nt take it.
Australia voted (ironically) against democracy.

I voted yes. Twas a very sad result indeed. And I overheard dumba**es walking into the voting booth saying 'Oh, I'm voting no, I don't want them to change the flag'.
 
Is anybody else having all sort of strange problems with odd things not working, like some of the icons on ebay screens and my hotmail email just not getting past the sign on screen.

I seem to also have slowed down dramatically with everything including SS having a 'think' before doing anything.

If this is the result of this censorship then you can forget about Australia being the 'Advanced' country as we will have just nobbled ourselves big time compared to every other country in the world (apart from maybe those advanced thinking countries like Iran:rolleyes:)

Cheers
 
Is anybody else having all sort of strange problems with odd things not working, like some of the icons on ebay screens and my hotmail email just not getting past the sign on screen.

I seem to also have slowed down dramatically with everything including SS having a 'think' before doing anything.

If this is the result of this censorship then you can forget about Australia being the 'Advanced' country as we will have just nobbled ourselves big time compared to every other country in the world (apart from maybe those advanced thinking countries like Iran:rolleyes:)

Cheers


.. and we already have some of the slowest broadband speeds in the developed world. :eek:

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Got this in an email today from GetUp...

------------------- Email to forward to your friends ----------------------

Hi,

Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world? That's why I'm one of over 100,000 Australians who have signed the petition to Save the Net. Will you join me?

This Friday, our petition will grace the pages of newspapers across the nation. That way the Government, who are due to make a decision any day now, will be left in no doubt as to how deeply unpopular this kind of censorship is in Australia. Can you help me make that petition too large to ignore?

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/AddYourNameSaveTheNet

Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. The plan has even been slammed by children's welfare groups, who say the filter is "fundamentally flawed" and simply will not work.

Can you join me and children's welfare groups, internet providers, consumers, engineers, network administrators, and over 100,000 everyday Australians in defence of our freedoms? Let's make sure this Friday's newspaper ad has an impact too large to ignore.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/AddYourNameSaveTheNet
 
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