Government to censor the Internet

[SofaMan]

This is nuts!

It'll never happen!

We hope not, but worse things have happened when we sat back and hoped the apparent absurdity of proposals like this would be obvious to pollies.

[Tober]

Internet Filter Gets Green Light

[foor]

Internet Filter Gets Green Light

Very upsetting news indeed. Well, it has to go through the senate still. But it's not going to stop them if they're dead set on making this happen.

[Golden Phoenix]

saying illegal material can be blocked "with 100 per cent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed".

Pull the other leg Kev

[1AZRAEL1]

join the Pirate Party.

They are an aspiring political party which values centers around freedom of information just as the green centers around the Environment.

http://www.pirateparty.org.au/

Its $20 to join which serves to help them get enough members to become an active political party and have someone run on their behalf in state or federal elections.

Aaaharr, you scurvy dog! You beat me to it!

I've joined, and so should we all. Hoist the mainsail!

(and yes, despite the pirate parlance, I'm quite serious)

Set Sail and Conquer. I'd be all for the Pirate Party, would be fun, yet deadly serious. We should not have restrictions of our own personal internet use imposed on us by our Government. In a way, it is like China with their restrictions that they cannot view anything about Tiananmen Square incdent, among other things. Censoring should be up to the user. Or the parents if they don't want their kids to view porn. There are things called NetNanny and a whole bunch of others that are out there for that.

This is nuts!

It'll never happen!

Well you better start believing, this country is being led by an idiot. And all these people who voted for him and are now regretting it, do you really think it would have been better going the other way? Either way you look at it, they are all bad.

[1AZRAEL1]

Now I am reading this on SMH-

From SMH Article

An earlier version of the Government's top-secret list of banned sites was leaked on to the web in March, revealing the scope of the filtering could extend significantly beyond child porn.

About half of the sites on the list were not related to child porn and included a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.

We are treading a very thin line me thinks.

[SGB]

Youtube will be slow as crap for all Aussies. There are some Youtube pages on the blacklist, and any pages from high-traffic sites that get added to a mandatory filter results in the entire site becoming very slow.

It happened in the UK with Wikipedia last year. The "offending" Wikipedia URL had to be removed from the UK blacklist to fix the problem.

[5FDP]

I actually work for one of the larger Telco's and can tell you that we're gearing up for enquiries from customers regarding what they are dubbing 'The Internet Filtering Initiative'. This includes a legal script (in that it's been approved by legal) to read out.

For the record, I do not support this at all and I'm not directly involved in its implementation. I will be affected like everyone else if this goes ahead

[1AZRAEL1]

I actually work for one of the larger Telco's and can tell you that we're gearing up for enquiries from customers regarding what they are dubbing 'The Internet Filtering Initiative'. This includes a legal script (in that it's been approved by legal) to read out.

For the record, I do not support this at all and I'm not directly involved in its implementation. I will be affected like everyone else if this goes ahead

And I can feel sorry for you at how many people will call up and abuse you because they will say its your fault. People just need someone to blame or to listen to them complain. I know all too much about that

But rest assured, I won't blame you

[SGB]

How f***ing embarassing:

Australia’s net filter makes world headlines


Net censorship move a smokescreen: expert