Internet Filtering: Australia heads further towards totalitarianism

[Temjin]

Re: Australia Internet Filter

Flow chart -

LOL nice one. You can't avoid being a paedophile in that flow chart, even if you were a dentist.

 

[AbundantIncome]

What if the internet no longer offered freedom of speech?

Interesting stuff I just found out.

What does this mean ??? Please check prisonplanet.com on illegal to link page Australia case and others... do not want to link in case i got a knock on my door for doing so ...

Just a thought, is the national broadband the new way government is controlling Internet media discreetly ??? What don't we know ?

Thanks

 

[jono1887]

Re: What if Internet no longer offer freedom of speech ?

Interesting stuff I just found out.

What does this mean ??? Please check prisonplanet.com on illegal to link page Australia case and others... do not want to link in case i got a knock on my door for doing so ...

Just a thought, is the national broadband the new way government is controlling Internet media discreetly ??? What don't we know ?

Thanks

the site opens fine, whats the problem??

 

[Wysiwyg]

Re: What if the internet no longer offered freedom of speech?

Interesting stuff I just found out.

What does this mean ??? Please check prisonplanet.com on illegal to link page Australia case and others... do not want to link in case i got a knock on my door for doing so ...

Thanks

Prison planet as a site name would surely attract the conspiracy theorists of which there is a large following. New world order, 911 etc. is big business and creates income for the sellers of such (i.m.o.) nonsense.

 

[Calliope]

Conroy Earns Internet Villian of the Year

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...ternet-villain-of-the-year-20090713-di8q.html

Adam Turner
July 13, 2009 - 1:24PM
Stephen Conroy's mandatory internet filtering plans have earned him the title of Internet Villain of the Year at the 11th annual Internet Industry Awards.

The Internet Villain category recognises individuals or organisations that have upset the Internet industry and hampered its development - those whom the industry loves to hate.

As Australia's communications minister, and supporter of one of the world's most ambitious internet censorship plans, Senator Conroy beat out tough competition from the likes of the European Parliament and French President Nicolas Sarkozy

 

[Trembling Hand]

hehe

 

[Timmy]

hehe

Don't want to get all conspiracy here ... enough of that on the forum already ... but I get an error message if I click on the YouTube link:

Will keep trying, in the meantime click on this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THe3FDe-aD4

Good find TH!

 

[overit]

The anti censor ad has been censored! - LOL!

No political interference in GetUp ban: Qantas

Fran Foo | July 14, 2009

A QANTAS executive with close links to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has dismissed suggestions that he personally barred an anti-internet censorship advertisement from airing on flights to Canberra.

The commercial, devised by lobby group GetUp, is part of a campaign dubbed Censordyne, a parody on the Sensodyne brand of toothpaste.

"With Censordyne the government can decide what we can and cannot do online," actors posing as government officials say in the 45-second commercial.

It also features so-called government internet technicians in laboratory coats rubbing Censordyne on cables to block net nasties.

GetUp wanted the ad to run on all Qantas domestic flights into Canberra during the next Parliament sitting so politicians would realise that the federal government's mandatory ISP filtering scheme was flawed.

But last week, Qantas said no to running the ad as it was categorised as political in nature.

"The ad was deemed as political advertising. We have a long-standing policy not to run those types of ads," Qantas's government and corporate affairs head David Epstein told The Australian yesterday.

 

[kitehigh]

Internet censorship plan gets the green light

The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...rship-plan-gets-the-green-light-20091215-ktzc.

Senator Conroy is a stubborn bastard, could well cost him his seat come the next election.

 

[Buddy]

Internet censorship plan gets the green light

The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...rship-plan-gets-the-green-light-20091215-ktzc.

Senator Conroy is a stubborn bastard, could well cost him his seat come the next election.

Nothing on the link. Maybe Conroy has censored it.

 

[Julia]

Internet censorship plan gets the green light

The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...rship-plan-gets-the-green-light-20091215-ktzc.

Senator Conroy is a stubborn bastard, could well cost him his seat come the next election.

Kitehigh, that's in total contradiction to the report on ABC Radio's "PM" programme this evening where examples were given of the inaccuracy of the filter, e.g. a dentist's and a landscaper's websites being filtered out as 'unacceptable content".

In that report, the good Senator Conroy (I'm being sarcastic in case anyone doesn't know) assured Australians the filter process would be corrected before final application.

Of course Family First are thrilled with it. But the Coalition are withholding judgement, though now that Abbott is in charge they will probably give their support, given his religious bent. The Greens are opposed to it. So the passage through the Senate is not yet assured.

It's not just pr0n that will be shut down if this interfering legislation is passed:
All content from Phillip Nitschke's "Exit" website (voluntary euthanasia) will also be wiped out.

Governments should be there to do the practical stuff, but they should not be interfering in our personal decisions.

 

[-Bevo-]

It's not just pr0n that will be shut down if this interfering legislation is passed:
All content from Phillip Nitschke's "Exit" website (voluntary euthanasia) will also be wiped out.

The words Climategate might get censored too.

 

[Smurf1976]

Of course Family First are thrilled with it. But the Coalition are withholding judgement, though now that Abbott is in charge they will probably give their support, given his religious bent. The Greens are opposed to it. So the passage through the Senate is not yet assured.

It troubles me to say it given my long history of being on the other side in various conservation versus development battles, but I just might vote Green in the next election.

Labor - Outright socialists with a few rather disturbing non-democratic tendencies.

Liberal - Religious fundamentalists who no longer grasp the concept of a free market or personal freedom.

Which leaves the Greens as the only party with any worthwhile ideas, even if I disagree with many of the other things they'd likely do.

It reminds me of that 1970's quote regarding a certain industry - better to be poor and healthy than rich and rotten. Or in this case, better to have a lower standard of living and retain some freedom than to lose it all in pursuit of money.

Smurf voting Green? A decade or two ago I'd have said there was more chance of me landing on Mars than voting Green. But with the other two major parties essentially imploding in terms of worthwhile policies, the Greens are becoming the only mob left standing who could foreseeably actually do something (anything) useful without taking our fundamental rights away in the process.

 

[GumbyLearner]

It troubles me to say it given my long history of being on the other side in various conservation versus development battles, but I just might vote Green in the next election.

Labor - Outright socialists with a few rather disturbing non-democratic tendencies.

Liberal - Religious fundamentalists who no longer grasp the concept of a free market or personal freedom.

Which leaves the Greens as the only party with any worthwhile ideas, even if I disagree with many of the other things they'd likely do.

It reminds me of that 1970's quote regarding a certain industry - better to be poor and healthy than rich and rotten. Or in this case, better to have a lower standard of living and retain some freedom than to lose it all in pursuit of money.

Smurf voting Green? A decade or two ago I'd have said there was more chance of me landing on Mars than voting Green. But with the other two major parties essentially imploding in terms of worthwhile policies, the Greens are becoming the only mob left standing who could foreseeably actually do something (anything) useful without taking our fundamental rights away in the process.

Here's something to consider Smurf
Orwell vs. Huxley comic

http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html

 

[kitehigh]

If Abbot has half a brain he will seize on this and go all out to oppose it.

The Coalition could really do well by opposing this and running on anti censorship / ETS ticket.

 

[Aussiejeff]

Here's something to consider Smurf
Orwell vs. Huxley comic

http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html

Very good, Gumby. You have learned well....

IMHO the planetary hoi poloi are currently being jerked twixt Orwellianism & Huxleyism.

At home here, KRudd & Co. are cleverly manipulating both theories in a massive media campaign designed to ensconce them as The Most Populist Government Of All Time.

I predict this dichotomy of extremes (Uber-optimism & glad tidings mixed with Uber-pessimism & fear) will only get more pronounced over time and with the unstoppable explosion of world economic growth & most importantly - population (*gasp* - I said that nasty un-PC word again! )

Me?

I'm leaning towards Orwell's vision, as I just can't trust those dodgy bastids who run our lives to deliver us Nirvana. Never have trusted 'em. Left, right, centre, Green - who cares. IMO they all start to smell after a short time in power. The stench of corruption gets them all in the end, no matter what colour they start out as. It must be an incurable human condition, methinks!

Oh well, there's two sides to this story as we know, so for all you Uber's out there, keep on enjoying the parties and fun ride!

Everyone have a Merry Xmas & Happy New Year!?



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[awg]

Conroy u jerk-off!

what a hare-brained scheme,

technically and liberty wise, this censorship is monstrous.

plus I have more bones to pick with this incompetent fool

as a Telstra shareholder, thanks NOT, for the way Telstra has been handled since you had your hands on the lever, worse than Sol.

Oh yeah, since your hardly thought out NBN, means no more network upgrades, so that means no ADSL2 for me till God knows when, even though I live 10km from the 5th lrgest city in Oz..good one Conroy, u turd

 

[Mofra]

In that report, the good Senator Conroy (I'm being sarcastic in case anyone doesn't know) assured Australians the filter process would be corrected before final application.

I know for a fact that this is both impossible & impractical.

This is a perfect example of ministerial bandstanding without an adequate idea of the actual practicalities of policy.

Welcome to a glimpse of the looming NBN debarcle people. A pie in the sky idea seems more important to this government than workable policy.

 

[Mofra]

Oh yeah, since your hardly thought out NBN, means no more network upgrades, so that means no ADSL2 for me till God knows when, even though I live 10km from the 5th lrgest city in Oz..good one Conroy, u turd

NBN wont actually make anyone's internet faster unless they trunk directly into main cable OR the government sorts out how to get the fibre connected into the required power module that is to be installed at the network boundary point in each home. I wont hold my breath.

 

[marklar]

Conroy's parliamentary term is up in 2011

Since I live in the great state of Victoria I just might have to assemble the 50 registered voters and $1000 required to run against him.

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