(Wander if this thread will be gagged and closed by this Forum Censorship as boat thread was?)
Off topic, but ASF does not condone racist discussions, its in the site rules. Also, this is not a public site, it has a owner who decides rules, so in theory there is no right to free speech on any Internet site, its all at the owners discretion.
There you go, so if it is so good for Owner of the Forum it must be good for the Country too
Indeed, as we have no actual right to free speech set out in a bill of rights or our constitution.
http://digihub.smh.com.au/node/1484Conroy plans speed humps for Australia's freeways
aturner | December 18, 2009
In an ambitious plan to protect Australia's children, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced plans to install speed humps every 100 metres on all Australian freeways.
After a 12 month trial of speed humps in several suburban back streets, Senator Conroy says he is confident that placing speed humps on every Australian freeway will reduce accidents by 100 percent with a "negligible" impact on traffic congestion and travel times.
Are there any petitions going around on this topic?
Letsee...
- Cost goes up (user has to pay for this somehow)
- Latency goes up (gotta inspect traffic to see if it's naughty or nice)
- Risk of false positives goes up (www.coleSEXpress.com.au is a good example)
- The internet is more than WWW
There are a heap of ways of avoiding this 'mandatory filtering' including:
and combinations of the above. Where there's a will, there's is a way.
- Encryption
- Tunneling
- Anonymous proxies
- Changing protocols
- Peer-to-Peer
It's just like the war on drugs, or the war on terror, or reds under the bed; might have sounded plausible at the time but history shows just how naieve we really were at the time.
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Children’s welfare groups Save the Children and the National Children’s & Youth Law Centre joined GetUp! in the campaign, issuing a joint statement (PDF):
We argue that the tens of millions of dollars that such a scheme will cost should instead be diverted to appropriate child protection authorities and police to prevent the abuse of children, and towards effective community-based education strategies that give children and parents the skills to protect themselves.
Further, PC-level filtering software should be promoted to and provided to parents that wish to protect their children from inappropriate internet content.
Apparently Crean hasn't spoken to Conroy lately.The Rudd government believes in unrestricted access to media and information, for China
The internet must be free, a spokesman for Trade Minister Simon Crean says yesterday amid the Google censorship row:
AUSTRALIA has consistently urged China to protect freedom of expression and freedom of information and noted that free media is fundamental to the effective functioning of government. Free use of the internet is a key element of this. Australia has raised its concerns with China over restrictions on the internet, including through our bilateral human rights dialogue.
marklar...peer to peer will not get past a filter. Thats one reason they WANT the filter.
Isn't that rather beside the point? How many average Australians are going to even think about something along these lines, let alone know how to access it?Of course it will, at the moment the proposed filter is web traffic only, P2P is a completely different beast. Have a search for "Fast Flux" to see what techniques are being adopted by malware writers, it's really not that difficult to adapt these techniques to P2P applications... where there's a will, there's a way!
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