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Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net
Paul writes "An Australian Senator wants Australians' internet connections to be automatically filtered by ISPs. Anyone who wants to view pornography or 'other adult material' (details not specified) must apply to their ISP to be given access to it. Another step towards becoming a nanny state."
Well, I want monkeys to fly out of my ass. That doesn't mean it's likely to happen.
So what? Isn't the government the same as my parents? The government gave birth to me, raised me, fed me, taught me right from wrong. Surely they should be allowed to censor me?
Wildly unpopular, impossible to implement and very, very expensive to even attempt.
Yup. Sounds like a winning proposal to me.
I'd love to see how they manage to filter all the content on year 2005/2006, they have to add a massive park of machines for it. And even then they will be unable to do anything about encrypted connections around the internet.
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I can't imagine any possible way to do it. Unless they link all the lambs in australia into one massive quantum supermachine
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
Tasmania is a very cold place and it's population quite tiny
So that's where they disappeared to.
The Slashdot effect seems to have left the server standing, but expired the content in their ad server, leaving only the weird animated "Default Banner" gif, which actually doesn't fit in the provided space.
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She was thrown out after two years when it was obvious what an idiot she was. You re-elected Bush. Who's dumb?
(except that Tasmania is a very cold place and it's population quite tiny)
To start making remarks in which you combine cold with tiny is just not nice. It is always like that when it is cold!
My wife's sketchblog Blob[p]: Gastrono-me
"I'm anti-porn, I think it damages peoples minds. . ."
Well yeah, having your mind damaged by morality'll do that to ya.
KFG
And yet you are posting on slashdot. So where's the problem?
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
I just wish they weren't forcing adult websites to be hosted offshore. I would like to have the revenue.
If you want the revenue, then operate an adult site on an offshore server. Good luck to you, but it sure looks like a crowded market to jump into.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Hmmm, but without pr0n, it looks like one develops quite bad spelling.
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
Not only did we throw her out. We put her in prison for a bit also.
Australian Senator Wants to Censor the Net
In a separate announcement, he also reported he wanted to get a flying car, a magic wand, a six-leave clover to complete his collection, and an invisible pink unicorn.
I had such an experience with a company I used to work for. They had a filter policy on the firewall. I was researching a problem with a SCSI host adapter under Linux. When I tried viewing the source code on-line I was blocked from doing so. The file was for an Adaptec SCSI adapter, filename "drivers/scsi/AIC7xxx.c" ...
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Dear Narcc,
Thank you for the links provided however I must ask that you send more before I can form a balanced opinion onthis very tricky subject.
Yrs,
MrSev
supervision your children while they use the internet!
Why would I want to watch them surf porn? What kind of sicko are you?
Learn to love Alaska
New pricing scheme for internet in Australia:
Familiy Access: $14,95 (512kbps/256kbps + no pervert sites except encrypted ones.)
Pervert Access: $44,95 (1024kbps/512kbps + access to your locally approved pervert sites)
A survey by the Australia Institute called "regulating youth access to pornography" dated 2003 found that 84 per cent of boys and 60 per cent of girls had been accidentally exposed to pornographic material on the internet, while two in five boys had deliberately used the net to see sexually explicit material.
2 out of 5 boys: Gee, while looking for sexually explicit material on the net, I accidentally found it
prolly through a porn-pop-up add of a dialer their daddy put on the pc in the first place.
And then on a channel 10 dancing show.
Actually, no. Water in Australian toilets doesn't swirl, it just foams and splashes in a chaotic mess for a few seconds. The episode is partly correct--the American embassy would actually have to import special equipment if they wanted the toilet to flush according to Truth, Justice and the American Way.
I had to have a few extra flushes the first time I used an American style toilet because the whole thing looked so orderly and nice. Ironic really, given what I'd just done to the poor thing.
Cogito, ergo sig.
This politician is apparently terrified that the new generation won't grow up to be as horrified as he is when seing a naked body.
Apparently he wants the australian population to die out because people will be to scandalised by the very idea of having sex.
(damn I think I uncovered his master plan)
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Even better - comment objectively on their taste.
Show them your stuff.
Look bored.
Aside from being the coolest parent ever you're likely to have a kid who doesn't hide stuff from you.
The world has changed.
Everyone be quiet. We don't want W. to hear about this idea!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
...parents must acknowledge their responsibility and duty of care to ensure their children do not become victims.
Yesh! We all know that boobs are weapons of mass seduction!
I'm a 17 1/2 year old American teenager and I'm a virgin by choice. (read: I'm not a virgin because of inability to attract a mate)
Well, I'm sure they'll cut them off based on IP address. But seriously, I don't see why Austrailians really need the internet for porn. Australia's government seems to be the biggest pussy on Earth. And I thought America was too PC.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
"Aw cmon baby... we have to take a stand! I look at porn only as an expression of my inalienable freedoms and protest against... wow... I didn't know you could fit that there... um, protest against government censorship!"
Excuse my speling.
Making The Bar Project
Australia isn't becoming a nanny state, it is a nanny state looking to become a police state. You can tell the world's completely off kilter when the First World nations that seem to be making the most sense at the moment are the Germans who can't even elect a leader and the French who don't bother to respond to massive riots for two weeks.
Personally I've noticed a serious bent towards totalitarianism in all the major players in the "Coalition of the Willing". Australia, Britain and America all keep passing these scary laws restricting free speech and removing rights from citizens and conferring them on corporations. It's a pity too, couldn't happen to nicer people, pretty much every single one of the ordinary citizens I've met from your countries I've liked and respected.
Here's some rules I learned from growing up in an oppressive society that eventually became free. I know it seems unlikely that an Aussie could learn anything from a South African, but they proved true here, watch out:
If you do ignore this list, please at least just be Australians. Toss some meat on the barbie, knock