Government to censor the Internet

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hursticon

because the filter would only have to be applied at the protocol level as well, though I think that this is why transmission speeds are being affected as filtering at the protocol level tends to create a bit of a bottle-neck and can create large amounts of overhead.

---

A bottleneck is certainly one issue. I saw the tests about applying a protocol filter, but they are flawed for a few reasons.
One thing is that a filter can't check inside achives with passwords, so there's an instant filter cercumvention method right there.
Or even using an encrypted protocol would do the job.
And unfortunately both of these things (and more) are methods that those sick people both know of and use, I'm quite sure :(

Rudd retreats on web filter legislation

Despite the headline, the policy ain't dead yet.

I have no doubts that if Rudd wins the next election and gets House of Reps and Senate majority he'll ram the legislation through.

Whilst I hope that Labor do get the majority in both the Upper and Lower houses, I hope he doesn't bother with the filter as I think at the moment there is a lot of other major things that need to go through, like the ETS for one thing and hopefully the NBN and Hospital Reforms.

Too bad that the choice is 'only one or the other'. Both the Liberal and Labour parties are two flavors of rotten.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hursticon

Whilst I hope that Labor do get the majority in both the Upper and Lower houses

---

Trust me, you DON'T want Govts of the day to have majority in both houses. It gives them too much power and would allow them to pass ANY legislation virtually unopposed (and without proper scrutiny), no matter how unpopular they (the legislations) are.

This is how John Howard enacted Workchoices despite it being hugely unpopular.

I agree SGB that it could be too much power but then Labor isn't made up of out of touch dinosaurs like the Liberals, Kup is right though as it would be nice to have a 3rd option, Greens maybe?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hursticon

but then Labor isn't made up of out of touch dinosaurs like the Liberals

---

There are some dinos in Labor as well, unfortunately.

To be fair on the Libs though, there are a few who aren't dinos. Alex Hawke, Jamie Briggs and Scott Birmingham come to mind.

Quote:

---

Kup is right though as it would be nice to have a 3rd option, Greens maybe?

---

Up to to you as to who you think you should vote for, but if you do vote for the Greens, make sure you vote BELOW the line otherwise your Greens vote will flow to Labor instead.

SGB: no, no, no. Sorry dude I didn't mean vote for, I meant if it were a 3 party preferred system as apposed to a 2 party system, i.e:

2 party - Labor vs. Liberal
3 party - Labor vs. Liberal vs. Green

Sorry about that, I mustn't of defined it enough.

Another ex-Liberal, non-Dinosaur was Malcolm Turnbull, at least he was forward thinking but alas fell to yet another Liberal Power Struggle.

It is a pity that Federal Party Leaders aren't publicly elected, would you guys agree?

Personally I'd rather a bunch of dinosaur liberals then these god botherer/utopian labor people.
Say what you will, at least under liberal we don't get in debt as much as under labor (even ignoring the "economic crisis").

I'll say it before and say it again. Religion and Politics should stay well apart. As well as that, lets not get into discussion on who worse than others, it will lead to a heated debate where things would get ugly.

Also, we are not really supposed to talk about such topics in depth on here :) Kind of discouraged :p

This is really just a thread to keep updated on how bad the Internet Censorship idea is :p