[Aptorian]

[MTS]

I won't be, but a couple of my friends will be attending the protest in Canberra.

The whole proposal is a joke, frankly. With this and a push for the drinking age to be raised to 21, Rudd is failing spectacularly at appealing to young voters, and is turning us into even more of a nanny state than we already are.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

God, if the drinking age goes to 21 that means even more school-leaver australians over here working in pubs. I can't take the volume anymore!!!!

[Tiste Simeon]

Thelomen Toblerone, on 15 February 2010 - 11:48 PM, said:

God, if the drinking age goes to 21 that means even more school-leaver australians over here working in pubs. I can't take the volume anymore!!!!

On the plus side I know some incredibly hot Australians over here, so they can keep sending them over!

What exactly is the proposal that they are protesting against? And if its Anonymous why haven't they just flamed and spammed the government site like they would normally do? This seems far too... legal...

[MTS]

It's basically an internet firewall plan to catch paedophiles and things like that.

See what Hitler has to say about it:

This post has been edited by MTS: 16 February 2010 - 12:13 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

It seems everyone is against it really...

[RaZjInSaR]

*cough* bs government ideas *cough*...*cough cough* *dies and rolls of cliff*

[polishgenius]

Tiste Simeon, on 16 February 2010 - 12:08 AM, said:

What exactly is the proposal that they are protesting against? And if its Anonymous why haven't they just flamed and spammed the government site like they would normally do? This seems far too... legal...

Much as I loathe the way Anonymous behaves a lot of the time, when they've got it into their heads to do something really worthwhile, they do tend to do it properly. Like when they organised public protests against Scientology in the UK, getting far more attention than they would have done just fucking about so they could be dismissed as vandals or just ignored.

[Obdigore]

MTS, on 16 February 2010 - 12:12 AM, said:

It's basically an internet firewall plan to catch paedophiles and things like that.

See what Hitler has to say about it:

No, it is basically an increadibly expensive but increadibly easy to get around firewall that will do nothing to prevent determined people from looking at anything they want, but will prevent the general public from accidentally finding their way to 13yofarmsex.com or something.

Of course, what other websites will the Aussie Government block without telling people they are going to?

[Tiste Simeon]

RaZjInSaR, on 16 February 2010 - 04:23 AM, said:

*cough* bs government ideas *cough*...*cough cough* *dies and rolls of cliff*

Subtle political message there.

Also, great to see you back again, haven't seen you for ages!

[Aptorian]

Obdigore, on 16 February 2010 - 02:51 PM, said:

No, it is basically an increadibly expensive but increadibly easy to get around firewall that will do nothing to prevent determined people from looking at anything they want, but will prevent the general public from accidentally finding their way to 13yofarmsex.com or something.

Am I the only person who just googled 13yofarmsex.com?

On a more serious note, I agree that it's problematic that governments are censoring the publics access. I just recently found out that Denmark is actually one of the worst countries for this kind of thing, but it's not really anything that effects my every day internet surfing.

[Leo]

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Am I the only person who just googled 13yofarmsex.com?

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$11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.


Wikileaks was added to the blacklist

...how casually the regulator adds to its list of blacklisted sites.
could easily be expanded to encompass sites that are not illegal.


in both the Thai and Danish cases, the scope of the blacklist had been rapidly expanded from child porn to other material including political discussions.


506 sites
which are legal to view but would be blocked

*ahem*
BS

[Illuyankas]

Oh yeah, I remember reading that list. I'd post it, but I'd rather not have the site blacklisted in Australia.

Also I'd have to find it again.

This post has been edited by Illuyankas: 16 February 2010 - 08:51 PM

[rhulad]

I disagree.


with internet censorship.

[Leo]

Ah, a thought just occurred. If a website had linked to another site that was later blacklisted, that site would then have problems with the Australian government, aye? And what of sites that do not, or cannot, monitor all the content submitted by the public?

[maro]

Yet again, Parent lack of responsibility foists crap on others.

[Tsundoku]

Don't get me started on this shit.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 17 February 2010 - 10:11 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

Leo, on 16 February 2010 - 09:39 PM, said:

Ah, a thought just occurred. If a website had linked to another site that was later blacklisted, that site would then have problems with the Australian government, aye? And what of sites that do not, or cannot, monitor all the content submitted by the public?

So, if any website posts a link that is on the blacklist, that site gets blacklisted, how long until the entire internet is just one big blacklist due to all the connections?

[Satan]

Aptorian, on 16 February 2010 - 03:12 PM, said:

Obdigore, on 16 February 2010 - 02:51 PM, said:

No, it is basically an increadibly expensive but increadibly easy to get around firewall that will do nothing to prevent determined people from looking at anything they want, but will prevent the general public from accidentally finding their way to 13yofarmsex.com or something.

Am I the only person who just googled 13yofarmsex.com?

I just cut'n'pasted it straight into the adress field.

[D'rek]

This thread's title should have been "Anonymoose on the loose in Australia" instead.

And, um, yeah censorship and stuff... who am I kidding I have nothing useful to add to this.