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Thread ID: 86148 2008-01-06 02:09:00 Australia is the new China:Internet censoring lance4k (4644) PC World Chat
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627685 2008-01-06 02:09:00 Australian government are going to censor the internet:

www.techcrunch.com


They are blocking all porn,including LEGAL porn. You would think they would just block ILLEGAL porn and NOT legal porn.

Australia are turning into china. the aussie government is under fire from people saying, are the government going to censor sites that critisize them?:

www.physorg.com


No doubt someone will find away around the isp filters. I'm surprised no-one from china has found a way past their filters because they have had filters for years.

The filter works by everytime you type in ANY url, it has to be checked against the filter's blocklist,which will slow down australia's internet by 70%. Looks pretty hard to bypass.
lance4k (4644)
627686 2008-01-06 02:16:00 See my thread pressf1.pcworld.co.nz from last year.

People have found ways to bypass The Great Firewall of China, however those methods are often shut down quickly (i.e. proxy servers blocked), and people arrested.
somebody (208)
627687 2008-01-06 02:19:00 Who long before hitler clarke starts it on NZ?

I dont care much for the porn side, but I luuuurve violent video games, I guess those would get censored.....
rob_on_guitar (4196)
627688 2008-01-06 02:26:00 Who long before hitler clarke starts it on NZ?

I dont care much for the porn side, but I luuuurve violent video games, I guess those would get censored.....

It's already started... Electoral Financing Act, Surpression of Terrorism Act... before you know it, it'll be too late.
somebody (208)
627689 2008-01-06 02:53:00 When I first heard about it, it was opt in. It is not good that they made it opt out. Greven (91)
627690 2008-01-06 10:07:00 I remember when the Aussies first introduced this last year sometime, it took a high school student only a few hours to bypass the system. beeswax34 (63)
627691 2008-01-06 19:51:00 Which country in the World do you think that has no Internet censoring (one way or another)? Just that, some countries make it very obvious and some disguise it very smartly. bk T (215)
627692 2008-01-06 20:08:00 Which country in the World do you think that has no Internet censoring (one way or another)? Just that, some countries make it very obvious and some disguise it very smartly.

There is also a significant difference in the level to which censoring occurs, and the implications for breaching the censor...
somebody (208)
627693 2008-01-06 22:01:00 Next they will be trying to stop people pirating games! Agent_24 (57)
627694 2008-01-06 23:19:00 You have to consider it before you move to Australia. msnforum (11610)
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