Government to censor the Internet

[SofaMan]

I still don't know if you're serious about your claim or not. But, there is no filter in place. We do have internet censorship laws in place, but there's no actual technical enforcement of them (no filter will be able to enforce them anyway, the net is too vast and changes too quick for govts to keep up).

Thanks for that link though, however I've been aware of that site for a couple of years.

Snap. Even when it is applied, it's seemingly only applied to Australian-hosted sites. The difference is that when applied, it's done at the hosting end, not the viewing end. Which of course just drives the hosts offshore.

Never forget the rubbish foisted on us by religious fruitstorms like Brian Harradine.

[SGB]

Here's something to think about ...

The censorship report says the average overblocking rate was 3.4%, which the government seems happy with. However, there's more than 1 trillion webpages in existence.

That means if a filter is implemented, more than 34 billion pages will be wrongly blocked.

[Scrapper]

I find it comical that you have chosen to start and engage on a conversation purely on the effects of the internet. Yet none of you have actually looked upon or brought up what krudd is actually doing towards the gaming on that certain games will be banned and also what the plans that they are doing towards WOW itself as well.

If any one remembers a show called "Glasshouse" you would recall they too were banned because the Government in the Howard reign would remember that they banned the show due to the fact that they were pointing out the stupidity of the government. The Government felt that the Australian citizens shouldn't watch anything which would make them feel and think any less of their Government, which was incorrect since the general Australian citizen disliked their pm any way.

All in all this is not the first time the Australian Government has done this to the citizens of Australia. It will not just affect the internet but it will affect the gaming industry, the media industry with what information can be placed on television, radio, advertisements and movies. It will also affect people who use PC's for research who make a living off of it and also affect other jobs like Librarians since information is not available to them. As they say knowledge is power and with these new laws soon to be passed that's saying if they do, the Australian Government does not want the citizens to have power.

But hey it's not surprising that Krudd has gone the way of China. China owns how many ex-Australian business's we have what percentage of immigrants coming from China as well also the political ties between Krudd and China of recent. It seems to me that more then anything that Krudd is trying to accommodate the Chinese immigrants and make them feel more at home. It's not a bad thing but we must remember every one that we are a nation of mass migration which means we have as much political sight as the U.N.. Which this law is walking a very thin line against freedom of information that any one has the right to access any information.

But all in all this also may see a mass shopping frenzy upon the Australian "Black Market" with gamers trying to access any way possible for them to get a hold of games and play games which are seen to be illegal in Australia. This new law would mean as well that sites which are blocked people would pay so that they can have access to them, though why a dentist in QLD was placed on that list confuses the best of us.

This "new law" if it ever does get passed will more then likely be passed around a few times and get amended so that it can be changed to allow certain information and material seen by the citizens of Australia. But look at Krudds law he tried to get passed of green house gases but sadly that failed and now he is trying to get it done again and again. So I don't think we have to fear this law being passed for quite some time.

[SGB]

National net censorship protests: January 30 2010

[SGB]

http://www.thegiftofcensorship.com/

Forget Santa. It’s time to write to Senator Conroy and tell him what you really want for Christmas.

Not only will we deliver all of your messages to Canberra in a big red sack (no promise we’ll use reindeer), we’ll make sure there’s coal in his Christmas stocking as well.

That’s right, for every 1000 letters sent, we’ll also send a Christmas stocking with coal to the naughty Senator.

Get crackin'!

Don't forget to write to your local MP too.

[Dkaris]

Was just on news.com.au, http://www.news.com.au/technology/go...-1225828788264

COMPUTER hackers disabled several Australian government websites today in coordinated attacks protesting against a planned internet filter aimed at pornography.

at least someones doing something about this.

[SGB]

at least someones doing something about this.

Attacking Govt websites is foolish though as it damages anti-filtering/anti-censorship campaigning.

[kup]

Was just on news.com.au, http://www.news.com.au/technology/go...-1225828788264

COMPUTER hackers disabled several Australian government websites today in coordinated attacks protesting against a planned internet filter aimed at pornography.

at least someones doing something about this.

Trying to censor porn is like censoring 95% of the whole internet - They may as well ban it altogether

What worries me about this filter is that censoring porn (legal or illegal) is just the excuse - That's why they don't concern themselves with the widely reported inefficiency when it comes to preventing child pornography. The real purpose of the filter is to control information so that the Government can dictate what you know and what you don't.

Just as the leaked filter list showed some 'politically inconvenient' websites rather than illegal listed among the banned content, I am sure that over time more and more of these 'inconvenient' sites will be added on and soon you would end up with a China style Nation wide firewall.

Control of information is basically control of votes. The problem is that the Liberals are probably loving the idea too and can't wait to inherit it so there is no way of preventing this from happening or relying on the next Government to abolish it.

[1AZRAEL1]

Will it actually do anything? I doubt it, but we can only hope. Can't stop people from viewing pornography on the net. I say it's a conspiracy between the Government and the Porn industry to stop us viewing on the net so that we go and buy their dvds

[1AZRAEL1]

Just as the leaked filter list showed some 'politically inconvenient' websites rather than illegal listed among the banned content, I am sure that over time more and more of these 'inconvenient' sites will be added on and soon you would end up with a China style Nation wide firewall.

Control of information is basically control of votes. The problem is that the Liberals are probably loving the idea too and can't wait to inherit it so there is no way of preventing this from happening or relying on the next Government to abolish it.

Exactly my point. Where will they stop when it comes to banning sites? They could always blacklist a site that bad mouths the current government, or makes a joke out of them (though they do a good job of that themselves), and we would be none the wiser. I have been saying it ever since they annoucned the plan for this ages ago, it will become more like China with it's censorship.