Australia's Internet Filter Switches On In July

[octafish]

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I do find it amusing that the Australian government decided there was no future in this blocking thing but the companies are going ahead with it anyway. Stupidity is not a monopoly of government, obviously.

This agreement was made a year ago, and was an agreement to defer the legislation being put forward until after July 2011, which funnily enough is when the Greens take power in the Senate thereby killing any chance of the legislation making it through. It is entirely feasible that Fielding could have helped pass it. That chance is gone now. Sign up to TPG if you haven't already and be filter free.

 

[mambodog]

A minor correction: Optus is no longer the second largest ISP in Australia, iiNet is, and they are not participating.

 

[NLS]

We've had this in Norway for years (to stop child pornography), and it hasn't been intrusive in any way.
But obviously a lot of people are going to be butthurt about not getting their free access to child porn and say censorship is bad.

 

[Titan Buttons]

I do not believe words exist that express my rage and actually hatred of this repression of information, as well as, the injustice to Human Rights and Freedom of Speech

For the first time ever I am ashamed to be an Australian citizen

 

[notimeforlulz]

Okay, what exactly are they trying to do here? And what do they mean by child abuse websites? Do they mean child porn? I got a better idea, why don't they track these sites down and nail the administrators and all others affiliated with these sites to the fucking wall. Besides, this kind of content is more likely to be distributed by the P2P networks, not through HTTP, which is what they will be blocking. These assholes are cleverer than that.

That's actually what the police here in Australia do. They nabbed some administrator dude on a post board earlier this week.

However, police doing their jobs doesn't win votes. Nor does it give you an infrastructure to censor the internet with. Although it does actually stop CP.

 

[Zing]

Fix your title. There's no internet filter. It's not law, only three ISPs have decided to use it.

Other huge ISPs have refused to use it, iiNet(second biggest), Internode, TPG, AAPT, and all the little ISPSs. Personally, I'm with internode.

It just seems like you're sensationalizing with this title, and it doesn't do any good, it just causes people to think Australia is turning into Iran or something.

 

[The Human Torch]

So Australia gets back to being a prison island again then?

 

[notimeforlulz]

My only problem in this is that female ejaculation in pornography is illegal in this country now. When they decide to enforce that, they're going to have to come up with a block list that's 3million addresses long, good luck to them on that looool.

That being said. 500 addresses? As an earlier poster said; the fuck is this? Are we really going to introduce this shit and slow down the internet to block what has got to be a fucking spec of some element that doesn't exist because no element is as rare in the universe as that number of websites is small in the scale of the internet. Like, step the fuck up and block more CP sites, or get out of the fucking game. 500 sites...

 

[Aurgelmir]

So how will Australia get porn? Poor Australia

 

[Baneat]

Boy I bet it's lonely in your little world.

What gave you that impression?

I just wouldn't say anything bad about any of the governments. They have the military and all. So, as a result, I support anything they go for.

And we might as well get rid of piracy and pornography while we're at it.

They really should make this kind of thing illegal if it isn't already.

The government(And organizations like this) should have every right to block websites from user access.

So they should have the right to censor their opposition from speaking?

Of course.

If the government had the ability to stop criminals from communicating with each other, organized crime would be a thing of the past. And any other crime would be relatively manageable. So yeah, I don't see what is wrong with hindering organized crime.

Okay, 100% guaranteed to be trolling now. No question. Had me going there for a second.

I'm not trolling. What gave you that idea?

Tip of the hat, that was well done.

But seriously, weird censorship laws, no A-cups in porn, no swearing in streets, internet censorship

Totalitarian much, Australia?

 

[Trippy Turtle]

*Looks hopefully at anon*

This is crap. Why not bring down Child porn rather then just block it? Why can't our government understand we are not all 3 years old? This reminds me of the R rated games banned in Australia (A reason I'm guessing that a lot of people pirate said games). You are not my parents, it should not be up to you to control my actions.

 

[BoTTeNBReKeR]

This is stupid. I'd bet annon's gonna have a field day on this one aswell.

Filtering the internet is something I'd expect from countries such as China. Seriously, the Australian governement needs to stop being such dicks all the time.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Communism much? I thought we have grown out of it at this point

I guess the great firewall of China was bound to give others strange ideas.

 

[Zing]

My only problem in this is that female ejaculation in pornography is illegal in this country now. When they decide to enforce that, they're going to have to come up with a block list that's 3million addresses long, good luck to them on that looool.

That being said. 500 addresses? As an earlier poster said; the fuck is this? Are we really going to introduce this shit and slow down the internet to block what has got to be a fucking spec of some element that doesn't exist because no element is as rare in the universe as that number of websites is small in the scale of the internet. Like, step the fuck up and block more CP sites, or get out of the fucking game. 500 sites...

It isn't illegal!!! It's only blocked voluntarily by these ISPs. Just switch ISPs and show them you don't want this shit

 

[SillyBear]

Comparing Australia to China? Please. They are censoring a few child pornography sites to prevent people from stumbling upon them. They aren't going to start censoring whatever the fuck they want, and they aren't going to turn into crazy dictators. All of you are using the slippery slope argument.

You cannot accidentally stumble upon a site with child pornography.

Yes, yes you can. My Father is a UK Police Officer who was worked in child crimes for over 25 years and over sees internet operations every few weeks. I know for a fact you can and many do. Most of it is unknowingly child porn.

Anyway, the rest of your post was just nasty and snidey so I'll just leave that out.

 

[Nouw]

So Australia gets back to being a prison island again then?

Aaaah awesome historical reference.

 

[madster11]

Everyone does realize that because of Australias stupid retarded BULLSHIT views of the term 'child pornography', a VERY large number of sites are going to be blocked because they show drawn pictures of 'underage' 'people'?

All this is going to do is harm anything that doesn't supply child porn, while allowing absolutely everything that does (Hint: Tor, p2p) to continue on with no problem at all.

Fuck this stupid nanny-state bullshit country. I can't stand this any more, and will be moving to another country next year.

 

[Tourmeta]

It starts with OK things like child porn, but you just know someone is going to block something stupid.

They shouldn't have the right to block something from an entire people just because.

 

[monstersquad]

So, reasonable people still choose to live in Australia why?