No opt-out from Australian "cyber security" govt filtering!

[wintrmute]

Please tell me this isn't really going to happen: Great Australian Firewall.

Gah! I know I can get around it by proxying everything through an off-shore vserver but I don't *want* to have to do that - it's just screwed up!

Comments

[ms_maas]

holy fucking shit, i am getting that cold feeling in my chest. at least fucking howard didn't go this far. i cannot believe what's going on. fucking interventionist pricks. fuck. fuck. do me a favour and send me some info about how to set up that kind of proxy? a censored internet is not the fucking internet.

fuuuuck.

[wintrmute]

First step is to write angry letters to your MP and the newspapers.. Off-shore proxies are a last resort.

[wintrmute]

*cough* Phorm *cough*

[kriyanna]

Gah. Why don't they just burn our books while they're at it.

[gwen]

The question is how this will affect torrents.

Though my friendly network engineer tells me this will never happen, it's been threatened before and never come through.

Besides, how else can we watch horse porn at work? :P

[smangesable]

Scary shit. Stupid, meddling idiotic government.

For starters, those who want to see it will see it. That includes many kids smarter than their parents.

On the note of ISPs maintaining the blacklist.. I mean, it's the internet. Stuff changes quickly. I wonder how many ISPs will be sued out of business by parents who leave their kids alone online only to find them looking at something the parents thought would be filtered out.

Basically, you're going to get many people upset that the filtering exists, and the rest upset that it's ineffective. Plus it'll waste millions of dollars in taxpayer money to argue about what gets blacklisted and maintain the list.

It doesn't work. If you want to impose filters and rules then do so in your own house. If you want your kids safe online.. watch them and teach them how to be. Eventually they'll grow up and decide what they want to do for themselves.

Fucketty fuck.

[wintrmute]

Yeah. And the govt already blew hundreds of millions on this a few years back under the Howard govt, only back then it was creating some free filtering software you could download voluntarily. (And which no-one ever used)

[smangesable]

That really should have been like the market survey to see if it was worth implementing, hey?