Oz isp begin censoring the internet

[Sionyn]

dave what the hell,

http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/telstra-optus-to-begin-censoring-web-next-month/story-fn5j66db-1226079954138

[EEVblog]

ISP have been voluntarily blocking child porn sites (and maybe some other types) for many years now, so nothing new there really.
It's not the RC content that was proposed, so that good. But still just as a retarded idea as it always has been.
Why the ACMA are touching child porn sites is beyond me. It's a matter for the federal police if anything, not that anything is ever hosted here anyway, so that's just as stupid really.
I say keep them open and the cops can then track and catch the bastards like they are supposed to.

Dave.

[FreeThinker]

Yes This is pretty scary! Totally ineffective and the first step in censoring the internet per se. The web is a global communications network not regulated by anyone and this scares governments who like to be in control. I seem to remember that in the early days of the internet the US and others got together to try and monitor/regulate internet traffic but were fought off by pressure groups et al. China does a pretty good job of containing the web within it's boundary but only with the assistance of the likes of google. What next? Banning all sites that disagree with the governments line? Assess to only government approved sites? Once you start down this road it is very difficult to stop and very easy for governments to justify. Just banning such sites is laughable, they need closing down but this would involve cooperation and a great deal of effort... Go figure!

[tinhead]

heh, i love filters .. like one of my ISPs, google safesearch is alway restricted on and i can't change it.
Is this usefull ?  Not at all, but who cares, let's some idiots be happy.

[Sionyn]

There is a question about where the links are coming from and I'd like to know the answer to that ?

http://www.efa.org.au/2011/05/27/filter-alive-and-kicking/

[ndictu]

heh, i love filters .. like one of my ISPs, google safesearch is alway restricted on and i can't change it.
Is this usefull ?  Not at all, but who cares, let's some idiots be happy.

Wow, that isn't even some basic DNS/IP filtering, you need to have deep packet inspection to do that, checking every request to google and changing the URL (or cookies, not sure what they use for that).

Good talk about this:

[PeterG]

I think that setting is the default for Google. I am able to change it to any of the options when i am logged into my google account.

Regards

[TheWelly888]

I knew Angry Aussie will mention this! Volume down or headphones - http://youtu.be/_FNLlubaJTw

[Simon]

what I never understand is why it is supposed to be so hard to get the people that run these websites and shut them down. Usually it is supposed to be because they host in far away countries and can't be touched by local law. Well flipping hell, if all of the nations of the world can decided together to go get gedafi in as matter of days I'm sure they can collaborate on illegal and unwanted stuff on the net

[FreeThinker]

what I never understand is why it is supposed to be so hard to get the people that run these websites and shut them down. Usually it is supposed to be because they host in far away countries and can't be touched by local law. Well flipping hell, if all of the nations of the world can decided together to go get gedafi in as matter of days I'm sure they can collaborate on illegal and unwanted stuff on the net

Money, and lots of it.

[Simon]

what I never understand is why it is supposed to be so hard to get the people that run these websites and shut them down. Usually it is supposed to be because they host in far away countries and can't be touched by local law. Well flipping hell, if all of the nations of the world can decided together to go get gedafi in as matter of days I'm sure they can collaborate on illegal and unwanted stuff on the net

Money, and lots of it.

well apart from that,

[Sionyn]

government would love to control but never will.
then their is a question who own it which is anybody with ip address
i guess the internet is strange like that.


one thing to note though censorship doesn't work when you can just route round it