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[Mixter]

...including sites that somewhere links to a site that links to a censored site like wikileaks.org.

Internet freedom gets worse and worse there.

Source: http://www.smh.com.a...7054787635.html

Seems like there are three options:
1. Daily demonstrations & civil disobedience
2. Leaving the country
3. Genetically modified politician-eating killer oppossums!!1!

(I'm not aussie just know some random ppl there.)

[JLL]

The good thing is that it will make the government look ridiculous in the eyes of people, especially young people. Censoring the internet is not as easy as it may seem to some clueless bureaucrat. You could, for example, host your website outside Australia to avoid the fines, or use anonymous proxies to access censored websites. We have one of these blacklists in Finland as well; it was meant to censor websites suspected of displaying child pornography, but it actually mostly bans access to normal porn sites (note that this pattern is very usual for governments: make something that everybody agrees is bad illegal, then slowly expand that law to include other things). Yet, this blacklist can be pretty easily avoided by using a proxy, which is apparently something the government officials failed to realize.

The internet is the best thing that's ever happened to freedom.

[Mr. Jingles]

Polititians are completely aware of anoymization techniques. Many polititians use them themselves.

That's not the point. Porn sites aren't the point.

The idea is to create governmental filtering infrastructure. Then certain content will quietly disappear, even though their net connection is working fine. Others will never see that they are there.

[maxwatt]

Polititians are completely aware of anoymization techniques. Many polititians use them themselves.

That's not the point. Porn sites aren't the point.

The idea is to create governmental filtering infrastructure. Then certain content will quietly disappear, even though their net connection is working fine. Others will never see that they are there.

China is worse. All new computers are to b sold with government supplied censorship software. Reports that the software slowed machines and sometimes made them crash were quickly censored.

[niner]

Thanks to the Australian government's censoring plans, I learned about WikiLeaks. It's pretty cool.

[Mr. Jingles]

Polititians are completely aware of anoymization techniques. Many polititians use them themselves.

That's not the point. Porn sites aren't the point.

The idea is to create governmental filtering infrastructure. Then certain content will quietly disappear, even though their net connection is working fine. Others will never see that they are there.

China is worse. All new computers are to b sold with government supplied censorship software. Reports that the software slowed machines and sometimes made them crash were quickly censored.

The bad news is that it is getting worse worldwide. China is just on the "cutting edge" of Internet censorship. They are more than willing to export their Internet policies, just like they export everything else.