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Australia to Censor the Internet
It has been announced that Australia's Cyber-Safety Plan will have no opt-out option as the government originally promised. It has also been revealed that the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy tried to suppress opposition to the project. I find it distributing that a democratic country is going to actively censor the Internet.
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Or maybe just China... I know I'm joking which makes me a terrible person but I am absolutely appalled by this |
I'm sure there will be thousands of aussies(including me) to stand up against this terrible filter, I mean seriously, whats the point of getting the internet if you're not able to access some sites that have information you need for something
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I read something about this on a blog post by H. Hanai. I don't think that this should be done to a country anywhere in the world. It seems wrong to limit citizens of a country to limited knowledge.
In China, they don't let people search up an incident that occured the a few years ago. I just hope your government reconsiders this. |
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Only there it's called Communism D: |
This is really weird, I hadn't heard much about it before this morning. How exactly are the regulations going to work? I mean..what exactly are they going to block? It's going to be so incredibly difficult to enforce this. I would have thought Australia, the land of awesome, would know better XD.
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This is ridiculous, this shouldn't be done. Hopefully there are people that are standing up for themselves and telling these people to start talking with their mouth! Anyhow, I'm against this definitely.
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Hopefully the Aussies won't become communist. |
A democratic country is now censoring everything on internet that it deems wrong? This is rather disturbing. Their government could censor about anything. Since "illegal" can be quite broad. Even to articles on Wikipedia.
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more nanny-state politics
Whatever happened to "parental responsibility"? Soon EVERY country in the world will impose mandatory nation-wide filtering that cannot be bypassed, including the United States (I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. is next, especially considering all the police state enactments in the name of "fighting terrorism" and "preventing another 9-11")!
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I hope this isn't going to be as bad as I'm picturing it, hopefully (this sounds kind of odd but I hope you understand what I mean) they only ban illegal-illegal sites, not sites like Wikipedia that have a few bad content on it, which means even this site would be banned if they deem ROM hacks and fan games to be 'illegal'. It can't possibly be as bad as my school's filter, which blocks anything with the SLIGHTEST inappropriate content on it (makes it extremely difficult to find information when doing computer work). Quote:
But in all seriousness, stuff like this makes me want to move to the US, as we're so over the top with everything. >_< |
WTF?!
How could they! Grrr I''m so angry! |
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--- Seriously? This is just stupid. Practically blocking out the internet, in my opinion. |
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This is annoying, and shouldn't happen.
I don't want my internet censored out, because the Government deems "illegal", it's absurd. |
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They'll probably only filter out porn sites, anyways.
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Blocking out things and censoring internet is just something I hate, specially if there is no choice...
They do it to promote communism, since if people doesn't have internet, they'd not get much knowledge about the outside world. And if that happens, you are easily made to believe that communism is good. This is stuff realted to economics, and it's true. |
For once, Rudd fails. I just hope the govt. reconsiders, half the internet will be censored just like on DET computers.
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Filters fail. So many false positives arise from it. It's not funny. |
In the article it said there will be
a list of sites that people can opt-out on, that are unsutaible for children, which is most likely porn |
But there'll also be a filter that's mandatory that all ISPs will put on and you can't have turned off, which will in turn slow down Australia's already poor and slow internet. That, and the filters will require so many resources that the servers will be slowed down and upgrades will be costly. Then what will happen is a rise in prices for internet access, possibly.
China has it slowed. For those who live in Britain and opt-in, they'll notice a slowdown, if slight. Software-based filtering is efficient. ISP-level filtering is not. |
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