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Red1530 November 3rd, 2008 7:50 PM

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.

suicidesal November 3rd, 2008 7:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Red1530 (Post 4094453)
I find it distributing that a democratic country is going to actively censor the Internet.

That is exactly what I thought when I read the thread title- like... I'm sure if Australia censors the internet... yeah.... it will become North Korea... long and short of it :P
Or maybe just China...
I know I'm joking which makes me a terrible person but I am absolutely appalled by this

Zet November 3rd, 2008 8:02 PM

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

Vernikova November 3rd, 2008 8:08 PM

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.

Chibi-chan November 3rd, 2008 8:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Beware of Dark Lugia (Post 4094492)
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.

Same thing's going on in China.
Only there it's called Communism D:

Volkner's Apprentice November 3rd, 2008 8:15 PM

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.

Zet November 3rd, 2008 8:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Volkner's Apprentice (Post 4094506)
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?

if you read the article, anything the government deems "illegal"

The Exorcist November 3rd, 2008 8:28 PM

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.

Vernikova November 3rd, 2008 8:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Chibi-chan (Post 4094495)
Same thing's going on in China.
Only there it's called Communism D:

China is becoming a super power in the world so they'll hopefully convert. Maybe they won't have a hard as Russia had. But I digress some bit.

Hopefully the Aussies won't become communist.

Hawkfish November 3rd, 2008 8:49 PM

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.

Guest123_x1 November 3rd, 2008 8:53 PM

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")!

Spoiler:
I wouldn't be surprised either if globalist New World Order elite "leaders" are behind this! (to censor sites that do not agree with their views).

Firebird306 November 3rd, 2008 9:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawkfish (Post 4094569)
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.

As an Australian I demand they don't censor Wikipedia, I look up stuff on it all the time, I'm obsessed with it. <_<

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).

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Originally Posted by Beware of Dark Lugia (Post 4094545)
China is becoming a super power in the world so they'll hopefully convert. Maybe they won't have a hard as Russia had. But I digress some bit.

Hopefully the Aussies won't become communist.

I don't know whether you were being serious or not and I mean not offense to anyone but that comment made me laugh. XD

But in all seriousness, stuff like this makes me want to move to the US, as we're so over the top with everything. >_<

Dukey November 3rd, 2008 9:09 PM

WTF?!
How could they!
Grrr I''m so angry!

Her November 3rd, 2008 9:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Zetta Despair (Post 4094508)
if you read the article, anything the government deems "illegal"

Goodbye, Cory Worthington then.
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Seriously? This is just stupid. Practically blocking out the internet, in my opinion.

Vernikova November 3rd, 2008 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Otter Mii-kun (Post 4094577)
[FONT="Georgia"]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")!

If Obama's our next President then there's no need to worry. ;)

FairyGarland November 3rd, 2008 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Red1530 (Post 4094453)
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.

Pfft... I think Australia's far from democratic. Would a democratic country force people to vote and even allow stuff such as teachers who snoop through their children's lunches? Now they want to censor the internet! Gah! All that proves how false our democracy is.

Azzurra November 3rd, 2008 10:04 PM

This is annoying, and shouldn't happen.
I don't want my internet censored out, because the Government deems "illegal", it's absurd.

Zet November 3rd, 2008 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by FairyGarland (Post 4094685)
Pfft... I think Australia's far from democratic. Would a democratic country force people to vote and even allow stuff such as teachers who snoop through their children's lunches? Now they want to censor the internet! Gah! All that proves how false our democracy is.

I guess they'll be censoring sites to order fatty foods from to stop kids from getting(more so) fat

Azzurra November 3rd, 2008 10:11 PM

They'll probably only filter out porn sites, anyways.

Zet November 3rd, 2008 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Blazeflare (Post 4094698)
They'll probably only filter out porn sites, anyways.

of course, anything like fan subs, free music downloads, free programs(not the freeware kind)

>Feelings< November 3rd, 2008 10:52 PM

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.

SherlockHolmeboy November 3rd, 2008 11:08 PM

For once, Rudd fails. I just hope the govt. reconsiders, half the internet will be censored just like on DET computers.

ハリマ☆ハリオ November 3rd, 2008 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SherlockHolmeboy (Post 4094789)
For once, Rudd fails. I just hope the govt. reconsiders, half the internet will be censored just like on DET computers.

Computers in schools are really horrid, aren't they? :(

Filters fail. So many false positives arise from it. It's not funny.

Dukey November 3rd, 2008 11:18 PM

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

ハリマ☆ハリオ November 3rd, 2008 11:40 PM

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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