'Net filters "required" for all Australians

[sjmike]

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.

More on this story here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... t-out.html

[Fadingtoblack]

Yay for censorship.


Better stock up on porn now right?

[porcelmc]

This is complete bullshit. Sounds like the " Internet 2 " is becoming a reality.

[Leighton]

Looks like Howard's old policy will completely ruin everyone's fun. The old cunt, this is why we tossed his arse last year. Conservatism sucks.

[sjmike]

Aussie govt: Don't criticize our (terrible) 'Net filters

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... lters.html

[Leighton]

We were officially announced as the worst country behind China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea for censorship. It's disgraceful.

[Fadingtoblack]

Yeah it's disgusting. Just read through your local paper to see how bad it is. There's an article on almost every page about how they're going to regulate this or restrict that etc etc.


For example, they don't want any junk food advertising on TV between 6-9.30am, 4-9.30pm weekdays and during the day weekends. And here was thinking that all you needed was parents NOT to buy the shit for their kids!


Seriously, it's like one of my favourite quotes: "Censorship is like telling a man he can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it"


For some reason the babies have taken control of our country and are legislating everything into oblivion. What will be next? Not video games as we're already getting dicked out of creating an R rating by that tool in NSW. Not alcohol as we've already been told that we're all binge drinkers and pre-mixed drinks are the root of all evil.


AGGGHHHHHH!

[infernall]

Internet without porn?
Sounds like a nightmare.

I wonder how they are gonna censor billions of porn sites.

[Leighton]

Apparently porn is on the second tier of censorship in the plan which is optional. Remains to be seen if it's optional to the consumer or the ISPs though.

[Leighton]

Does anyone have a copy of the list? It was published online at Wikileaks today, but it seems to have crashed or been taken down or something.

The list apparently had wikileaks on it too! Not to mention a whole heap of anti-censorship sites. Along with a Queensland dentist, a boarding kennel and a whole heap of non-sensical crap. I guess they pissed someone off somewhere along the line.