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November 28th, 2008 by Moses Leave a reply »

Kevin Rudd's legacy will be compromised Internet for all Australians

Kevin Rudd's legacy will be compromised Internet for all Australians

Did you know that Kevin Rudd’s Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world? This level of net censorship will put us in the same league as China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and there will be no opt-out of the proposed national internet filter when it is introduced.

It will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, and block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. The government of the day may add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme, such as euthanasia information, Iain O’Brien’s Fagot Blog, or anything else it deems offensive.

What’s more it will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped. The use of overseas based proxy servers will allow anyone with half a clue to still browse any blocked website, albeit painfully slowly, and questionable content will still be available via BitTorrent and other file sharing technologies.

Please sign the survey as there is still hope for this expensive, ineffective, and downright frightening bill to be quashed.

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4 comments

  1. jrod says:

    Luckily clean sites like mine won’t be affected.

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  2. Moses says:

    You should be right, Conroy is a big fan of the balls

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  3. wagga magpie says:

    fuck – no more redtube? im gutted. in unrelated news, my internet bandwith is no longer stretched to the girth of jesse ryder’s thigh pad strap

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  4. Graham says:

    Hi Guys

    I would like to send you a press release. please email me with your address so that I can tell you and all your readers about the 2009 Social Rugby World Championships!!!!!

    Cheers
    Graham

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