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censoring the net
The Australian government now wants to bring in the most draconian censorship laws of any western country. To what end? They say it is about child p*rn, but it seems to be largely driven by the entertainment giants and their obsession for monopoly and total control of their customers.
Sign the GetUp petition at
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
to stop the suckup politicians from *really* screwing things up.
The censorship scheme will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally block up to one in 12 legitimate sites, will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped. The government of the day may add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme.
Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither while throwing away any pretense to freedom.
I've noticed something already blocks me from sending certain addresses in my email. Today I was telling a friend about a site called "A Brief History of the Apocalypse" at http://www.abhota.info and I suspect the abbreviation for the site's title A B H O T A, which also forms the site address possibly coincidentally means something that someone somewhere doesn't like, so suddenly I can't write about an entirely different thing. Eventually I sidestepped the issue by simply adding spaces between the letters. See? This illustrates why censorship is so stupid. It interferes with normal legitimate traffic and anybody can get around it if they really need to. It is subversive, dangerous and a giant waste of time and money.
Sign the GetUp petition at
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
to stop the suckup politicians from *really* screwing things up.
The censorship scheme will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally block up to one in 12 legitimate sites, will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped. The government of the day may add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme.
Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither while throwing away any pretense to freedom.
I've noticed something already blocks me from sending certain addresses in my email. Today I was telling a friend about a site called "A Brief History of the Apocalypse" at http://www.abhota.info and I suspect the abbreviation for the site's title A B H O T A, which also forms the site address possibly coincidentally means something that someone somewhere doesn't like, so suddenly I can't write about an entirely different thing. Eventually I sidestepped the issue by simply adding spaces between the letters. See? This illustrates why censorship is so stupid. It interferes with normal legitimate traffic and anybody can get around it if they really need to. It is subversive, dangerous and a giant waste of time and money.
censoring the net
(Anonymous) 2008-11-29 01:45 am (UTC)(link)