Australia blocking illegal internet content
 

Australians may not be able to opt out of the government's Internet filtering initiative like they were originally led to believe. Details have begun to come out about Australia's Cyber-Safety Plan, which aims to block "illegal" content from being accessed within the country, as well as pornographic material inappropriate for children. Right now, the system is in the testing stages, but network engineers are now saying that there's no way to opt out entirely from content filtering.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...o-opt-out.html

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The cencorship of the internet has begun. It was just a matter of time.

Welcome to the NWO

protect the internet!

Fuck me how embarrassing :helpme

No way are Australian's going to sit idley by while our government decides what we can and cannot view online.

It will come that only useful information for studies will be allowed.
Such material from answers.com and dictionary.com will be acceptable for your Internet learning.
The news will be allowed to access information and entertainment such as the nick at night station will be allowed and even youtube.com as long as you don't surpass your given hours.

Gambling and Adult websites will be forbidden!:disgust

Fucking sucks.

UK isps do this as well

I think I missed the article about China annexing the land down under...

Not to sound like a prick, but you heard this where?

"The Australian government's disregard for those prior studies suggests that the driving force behind the current plan is more political than technical."

Gee, that one wasn't hard to work out. They tried to pull the same stunt in about 1998 or 1999 and it was a similar situation: technically non viable, but they didn't care so long as bought them some political clout. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children???

This country is always good for a laugh at the stupidity of elected governments, both state and federal.

I read the other day how the ATO is revenue raising again to, they want every single Australians details/tax file number from Ebay so they issue bills for capital gains tax. I'm glad to be counting down the days till I become an expat. :)

-N

i wouldnt be surprised if they do nothing. they arent going to start speaking up for porn.

This is Obama's vision of the new world order as I understand it:1orglaugh

You're not the only one :disgust