Australia: Hi, here's an expensive internet filter. Feel free to find ways around it. - Polidicks

Wait, they have an internet filter that they KNOW will be bypassed.....and make it legal to circumvent it AND tell anyone how to do it? Oh you silly Aussies.

australia is now New China

They can just skip the crap and admit that they want to create the 4th Reich.

What the fuck is going on in the country I reside in?

This country is fucking retarded and nobody seems to be doing much. To quote another forum goer. [quote]Seriously... not a peep, not a murmur, not even a god-damn, Current Affair fear-mongering special. I saw a brief snippet, and I stress brief as in an 8 minute segment, at the end of the 7.30 Report on ABC1 (14th of April Ed.) covering the potential wider risks of internet filtering/America's reaction to it and how a group of senior citizens were being effectively instructed how to do it. Aside from this, the mainstream public is kept in the dark or fed so painfully obvious, government-spun garbage like that Hungry Beast segment which rival Spielberg in creativity. What is this? Who did we elect? Stalin reincarnated? One of the widest-sweeping legislations ever to be enacted (and certainly the widest sweeping in Rudd's term) that will affect more than 2/3's of Australia (over 90% with non-dial-up connections) that is online is literally a stone's throw away from being passed into law and our media are jerking us off with Tiger Woods and "Lad's Magazines" corrupting our precious little ones. We need a goddamn referendum on this issue. We need the kind of Senate debates Howard & Beazley struck up on this issue. We need massive saturation of it into every 4-walled building in the nation. It worries me to think this is part of a concerted effort to ram this thing down our throats before election time but what's even more disturbing than that is the censorship that is already in place. Where do we go from here?[/quote]

[QUOTE=Rusty100;21383407]what if i wanted to see goatse[/QUOTE] Seek serious help.

[QUOTE=CheeseMan;21383926]You can't get rid of proxy servers, or things like Onion Routing and god knows what else, without even MORE dumb wasteful technology.[/QUOTE] They were dumb enough to make the filter in the first place so I wouldn't put it past them :P

:australia:

I hope the recent events on the Australian political stage will encourage more Australians to take an interest in domestic politics.

To be honest, I think it makes sense. Those smart enough to get through likely have enough mind and logic to know the do's and don'ts of the world, and are likely to be ready to assume the responsibilities of such an access. While the other, less savvy ones are kept safe from the shit.

It's brilliant. The sort of people who complain about the internet wouldn't understand how to circumvent the filter and so as far as they're concerned it's been cleaned up and they can stop whining. Everyone else can carry on as before!

Why's this kid famous? He just grabbed a proxy.

glad im with Internode, i bet they wont do this :v:

How will they detect child porn? The words "child porn" appear on nearly every news site, and if they know of CP sites, why not just forward it to the governments of the countries hosting the servers to get them shut down?

[QUOTE=Hendo;21395744]glad im with Internode, i bet they wont do this :v:[/QUOTE] You're an idiot, it is a nationwide compulsory filtering scheme. Every ISP, even the many who are vehemently opposed to it, will be forced into it. [QUOTE=ProWaffle;21396221]How will they detect child porn? The words "child porn" appear on nearly every news site, and if they know of CP sites, why not just forward it to the governments of the countries hosting the servers to get them shut down?[/QUOTE] It won't work, it is a colossal waste of millions of taxpayer dollars.

Australia......nothing surprises me what the government does there any more hell why not let the Kangaroo's run for goverment they will do a better job plus they can box the current government out!

[QUOTE=Splurgy;21393674]It's brilliant. The sort of people who complain about the internet wouldn't understand how to circumvent the filter and so as far as they're concerned it's been cleaned up and they can stop whining. Everyone else can carry on as before![/QUOTE] It's still censorship, and the vast majority of people who enjoy the internet have no need for this bullshit censor. Instead they are listening to the uneducated elitists who hate the internet and are punishing everyone else because of it. If you think the internet is bad, don't go on it, simple as that. The fact that it's easy to work around just shows how desperate they are for approval, they want people like you to like it. If you can manage convince the thinkers and smart people in a society, they can convince everyone else. Why bother having to do extra work when the government is doing something completely unconstitutional/illegal/whatever you guys have? Even if the censor blocked one word, people shouldn't stand for it. It's still censorship, and if you don't stand for your principles, the basic principles that our society is supposed to stand for, what do you stand for at all? If they can start here, where will they stop?

Yes, how will they catch every site? There are like billions of sites that they will need to censor. That will take fucking ages, since you can't do it automated, since it will just pick up false positives, and by hand? Rofl.

[QUOTE=ashxu;21398784]Yes, how will they catch every site? There are like billions of sites that they will need to censor. That will take fucking ages, since you can't do it automated, since it will just pick up false positives, and by hand? Rofl.[/QUOTE] It doesn't have to block a whole site.

[QUOTE=FPChris;21386047]Australia :argh: Seriously, get your shit together Australia.[/QUOTE] They're afraid of the wildlife and express this by banning everything else. [editline]01:32AM[/editline] They're like Greeman but he doesn't ban for people posting laser pointers.

Well this is better for me, does this mean that if I get around the filter and do illegal things, are they still illegal?

I hate my country sometimes. Seriously, our internet is already fucking slow and backwards compared to the rest of the "developed" world, so why the fuck would anyone (I'm looking at you, Stephen [del]Conroy[/del] Cuntroy) deem it a 'good' idea to then go and waste millions upon millions of our tax dollars to implement something so fundamentally fucking stupid? Plus, if you're not even going to punish (or indeed, even make any concerted effort to stop) people from getting around the filter in the first place, why bother? Someone is [b]going[/b] to get around it, then it'll be a matter of milliseconds before it's public knowledge and it's plastered across every website that isn't yet blocked. [url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/how-government-tried-to-gag-censor-critics/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html]There was a report[/url] that said that our internet would be slowed down by up to 86% as a result of these filters. So, yay. Slow internet, false-positives, crappy, overpriced network infrastructure... I'm also guessing they'll be just as effective as the other filter our government released a while ago, which was basically a crappy net-nanny like program that you could completely destroy in next to no time at all.

Great, now I can go back to 2004 when I had ADSL speed. Thanks filter.

Whats the point of us getting the filter? Oh no someone posted a picture on the internet of a guy with a mosquito bite he scratched and started to bleed! :O ban that image and the website it was upload for free on!

It's a war of defaults, really. Just like the great firewall of China, even though it can be circumvented it's very effective because only few know how to do that.

The worst thing about Conjob's stupid filter is the hurr durr LOLSTRALIA facepunch comments.

[QUOTE=noctune9;21400796]it's very effective[/QUOTE] I am quoting you out of context, but saying the firewall will be "very effective" despite the fact that it may reduce the internet speeds of the country by up to 86%; it blocks innocent sites that have been incorrectly targeted; it is only effective for HTTP traffic, which isn't even where the vast majority of the content it is trying to block is being transferred; it seems like a flawed judgement to let the filter pass in any way, shape or form. Internet speeds over here are abysmal at best and overpriced regardless of what type you buy, especially when you consider that some parts of Europe have free\very cheap broadband that's super-fast and here we are, critically incapacitating our internet infrastructure with this "filter" that will be largely useless. It's very nearly shooting ourselves in both feet then making absolutely sure that they're both mutilated beyond recovery.