BF2S Forums Internet filtering in Australia - They're here!

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/ … 87635.html

Wikileaks added to the blocked list!!!!

Motherfuckers!!. Now I am mad.

edit to add this:

    The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system.

    Most sites on the list are still censored (i.e must be on the current list), even though many have clearly changed owners or were possibly even wrongly placed on the list, for example the Dutch transport company Vanbokhorst.

    The list has been leaked because cases such as Thailand and Finland demonstrate that once a secret censorship system is established for pornographic content the same system can rapidly expand to cover other material, including political material, at the worst possible moment -- when government needs reform.

    Two days ago Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for Thailand. Of the 1,203 sites censored this year, all have the internally noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the Royal family. Like Denmark, the Thai censorship system was originally promoted as a mechanism to prevent the flow of child pornography.

Last edited by BN (2009-03-16 19:42:56)

AussieReaper wrote:

lowing wrote:

Ummmm I govt. that tells you what you can hear, see, and say? Yeah, that is a pretty powerful big govt.

It's not like they are monitoring what we can hear, see and say and the have the gall to label it "The Patriot Act"

Neither did the country that actually has something called "The Patriot Act".

ghettoperson wrote:

lowing wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

Big govt?

Get out, lowing.

Ummmm I govt. that tells you what you can hear, see, and say? Yeah, that is a pretty powerful big govt.

Agreed. Changed your mind about wanting to move to Australia, Lowing?

Yup, but I still wanna go for a visit, even if I will lose my freedom of the press, and speach.

DrunkFace wrote:

lowing wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

Big govt?

Get out, lowing.

Ummmm I govt. that tells you what you can hear, see, and say? Yeah, that is a pretty powerful big govt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_ … edom_Index
Hey Fuck me, Australia big nanny state is still higher on 'freedom of speech' then the USA...

Not to mention our atrocious gun laws which requires a licence to own a deadly weapon, wow the shit we have to put up with.

"The survey asks questions about direct attacks on journalists and the media as well as other indirect sources of pressure against the free press. RWB is careful to note that the index only deals with press freedom, and does not measure the quality of journalism. Due to the nature of the survey's methodology based on individual perceptions, there are often wide contrasts in a country's ranking from year to year."

In other words it is bullshit.

Last edited by lowing (2009-03-17 04:20:00)

KuSTaV wrote:

Liberal > Labor.

Australian Greens > Liberal > Labor > just about any other party > Nazies > Family First

Spark wrote:

lowing wrote:

AussieReaper wrote:

Big govt?

Get out, lowing.

Ummmm I govt. that tells you what you can hear, see, and say? Yeah, that is a pretty powerful big govt.

Bear in mind, though, that the reigning emotions towards politics in this country are apathy and a strict adhesion to common sense (mostly).

People will move from "what?" to "what THE FUCK?" fairly soon, I would think.

As are we in the US, now that the Obama drug is wearing off.

Spark wrote:

Off topic, but not really. Obama still has large popular support where it matters.

His support is dropping rapidly from when he took office.

Do I get fined for looking at it?


Most of the URLs are pretty clear on wtf is on those sites... Scary thing was when I came across normal looking ones I didn't want to see if they were on the list for legitimate reasons because of how fucked up all the other URLs looked.


The only one that really threw me is GUBA...


I was linked a video on that site by Kmarion this morning.



Meh, bastards are going to slow my internet down for a filter that probably wont work.

Last edited by Flecco (2009-03-18 19:29:33)

See edited post.


Didn't open canteens because I was scared of wtf would be in it given the URLs on display on that list.


Didn't see Maryoochy. Lolwat?

more info to hand

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/ … 73414.html

The Queensland dentist included on the Australian communications regulator's blacklist of prohibited websites has demanded that the list be cleaned up, as he is now being associated with child porn peddlers and sexual violence sites.

Whisleblower site Wikileaks published the top-secret ACMA list today.

Websites contained on it will be blocked for all Australians once the government implements its mandatory internet filtering scheme - originally pitched as targeting only "illegal" content - later this year.

BN wrote:

Update:

One of the ISP's has pulled out


AUSTRALIA'S third largest internet service provider (ISP) has pulled out of the Government's web filtering trials, saying the plan is "no longer just about stopping child porn".

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story … 39,00.html

It was never about stopping child porn though.

Seems to me it was about sweeping it under the rug and ignoring it.

The ISP's have more common sense than the govt. Hopefully they can turn things around.

BN wrote:

Maybe time for Costello to have a go. Fiscally conservative but socially progressive.

Work Choices are not socially progressive.

V.Smart move by that ISP, i could imagine a lot of people switching over to them to get unrestricted net access.