Possibly the end of the Aussie Internet Censorship?

by samstephens

Posted: 14 years ago 21 replies

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Most of us have probably already heard about the Aussie government shutting down the free internet filter software program, and instead deciding they want to censor the whole internet at ISP level.

The good news is that it looks like it won't survive:

Coalition to dump internet filter - Yahoo!7

Liberals and Greens are opposing it, which means hopefully the money that would have been wasted on this can be spent on doing something that will actually make a difference.

So if Liberals get it, the filter is scrapped. If Labor get in, then at least it should be able to be blocked anyway. Hopefully.

I know this is borderline political, and so borderline "against the rules" of this forum, but since an internet filter has the ability to affect our businesses, I assume it's okay to post?

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#aussie #censorship #end #internet #possibly

Aegir

14 years ago

The liberals are determined to kill the nation broadband network thou, whoever wins its obvious that neither side appreciates the economic power of the internet as they should.

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samstephens

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Aegir

The liberals are determined to kill the nation broadband network thou, whoever wins its obvious that neither side appreciates the economic power of the internet as they should.

Yeah I'm in two minds about that, though. Sure, optical fibre would rock, but I'm sure we've got better things to spend money on. ADSL 2 is pretty fast, and it's supported by private business rather than tax payers.

Unfortunatly we live in a REALLY big country that doesn't have very many people in it, and so providing services such as internet is much more expensive over here than a country such as England that has a tonne of people in a much smaller area.

I think when politicians dabble in technology, nothing good can come of it

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Sam

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Danny Turner 14 years ago

Originally Posted by samstephens

I think when politicians dabble in technology, nothing good can come of it

that's right - our choice tweddledee or tweedledum
or tweedledum and tweedledumer
I for one never believed this will get off the ground,
God, they can't even give money away without killing people
put in place a sophisticated filter system on the internet .... yeah right
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samstephens 14 years ago

Haha, you're so right Danny - I think most of Australia are thinking the same thing: "What? You mean I have to choose one?!"
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Danny Turner 14 years ago

Yes Sam
I was raised in a fanatical Labour family
after the recent debacles with hand outs, I'll never vote for them again ... oh wait that means I have to vote for ......
woops .... politcs mmmm better be careful , might get banned
as to the internet, they have trouble managing their facebook pages
I think the internet is safe
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jazbo 14 years ago

Good news for free speech. I thought the Aussie law was a disgrace.
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rondo 14 years ago

But have they also stopped the plan to log our browser activity?
To me that's more disturbing than a filter.

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Quentin 14 years ago

They see the dollars rolling before their eyes so you can bet they will do something.

Politicians have become professionals in that go straight from uni to politics.

The Day Jonny Howard said he was giving Indonesia money instead of on behalf of the Australian people was the day Politics became a corporation rather than government for the people.

We will all soon see anyway.

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MattSanti 14 years ago

Wait until Obama pushes the one button that shuts down the entire Internet world wide. Muahhh hahahha
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- talfighel 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MattSanti
  
  Wait until Obama pushes the one button that shuts down the entire Internet world wide. Muahhh hahahha
  
  That could happen and anytime. And then no one will use the internet for anything. :-)
  
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  halfpoint 14 years ago
  
  As Sam said I'm not too fussed about the fibre optic stuff. The current speeds are all pretty good and most companies have good bandwidth limits now (As opposed to 6+ months ago when it was like 30GB/month max with some companies).
  
  As long as the censorship stuff gets thrown out and we never hear of it again I'm happy.
  
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Chris Worner 14 years ago

There won't be any national network, but Primus already started building its optical fiber network in Melbourne, so if you live in one of these fancy new gated communities in Brunswick or Northcote you have access to it, but it will be at least 10 years before it is rolled out into the metro

Telstra should never have been privatized.

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TheAnnoyingOrange 14 years ago

Ohhhhhhhh. I wanted fiber optics... Sick of downloading at speeds of 1mb/sec
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Roosy Banned 14 years ago

I want to know the new product.
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Gavin Abeyratne 14 years ago

Yea I think it might be the end of the censorship, gizmodo has gotten pretty vocal about it and to some extent spurred the techies into action.

Re: the NBN, as much as I love the idea I think that it probably won't go to plan sadly, and just end up a big ol waste of time and cash.
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- samstephens 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by daedalus1
  
  Re: the NBN, as much as I love the idea I think that it probably won't go to plan sadly, and just end up a big ol waste of time and cash.
  
  Heh, yeah or it'll end up bursting into flames like the home insulation thing
  
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The Copy Nazi Banned 14 years ago

Gillard's new slogan is "Moving forward - whilst shooting oneself in the foot". Oops - that's political comment. I'd better stop. But really, have you read the transcript of what Stephen Conroy has said about the internets? Face palm.
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- halfpoint 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Metronicity
  
  Stephen Conroy
  
  Please don't mention that name. It's too early in the morning for me to get angry.
  
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  goindeep 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Pat Jackson
  
  Please don't mention that name. It's too early in the morning for me to get angry.
  
  Bahahah. That guy is such a tool. Remember when he got caught for tampering with the 'Tagging tool cloud' on his website, where his developers purposely took out the words "Censorship". Bahahahhahaha!
  
  By the way, its alreadys squashed. Coalition have dropped it.
  
  Victory!
  
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  Regional Warrior 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Pat Jackson
  
  Please don't mention that name. It's too early in the morning for me to get angry.
  
  Bit of a bender last night Pat lol
  
  There have been rumors going around that the big porn shop in ACT has some CCTV footage of some persons from the house that should they decide to go ahead with the stupid Conroy rule they would make it Public
  
  Being that I am good mates with a State NLP member this may not be a rumor
  
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jaxrefinance 14 years ago

I personally don't think that anyone will give up on control. Everyone wants a piece of the cake.

Money is the old fashion here. Power is what seems to be the biggest niche.

Giving up on censorship is like removing cameras from cross roads, streets, and important buildings. For some people : unacceptable.
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