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Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'
An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Government's plan to Censor the Internet is producing problems for ISPs, with filters causing speeds to drop by up to 86% and falsely blocking 10% of safe sites. The Government Minister in charge of the censorship plan, Conservative Stephen Conroy, has been accused of bullying ISP employees critical of his plan: 'If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.'" Read on for more, including an interesting approach to demonstrating the inevitable collision of automated censorship with common sense.
The same reader continues: "Conroy's plan involves censoring at the ISP level to product 'Child-safe' Internet feeds. Initially he said that adults would be able to opt out. He since reversed that position, saying instead they can only go onto an 'Adult-safe' feed censoring 'illegal material', which another senator warned could include 'euthanasia material, politically related material, material about anorexia.' Colin Jacobs of Electronic Frontiers Australia said 'I'm not exaggerating when I say that this model involves more technical interference in the internet infrastructure [note: forum membership required] than what is attempted in Iran, one of the most repressive and regressive censorship regimes in the world.'"
Another anonymous reader suggests this answer to the proposed clone of China's great firewall: "Some of the tested systems use md5 hashes to find illegal content. As proof of concept, how long will it take Slashdot users to create an image with the md5 hash of 5ff742a58529efa02ba00ec8fa2e89bf? This md5 was picked because it is the hash of the current picture of the Prime Minister on his party's web site. A couple of points: The created image should be a jpg. It must be safe for work. It needs the correct MD5. It shouldn't break modern browsers. Its copyright should be free." Any takers?
Another anonymous reader suggests this answer to the proposed clone of China's great firewall: "Some of the tested systems use md5 hashes to find illegal content. As proof of concept, how long will it take Slashdot users to create an image with the md5 hash of 5ff742a58529efa02ba00ec8fa2e89bf? This md5 was picked because it is the hash of the current picture of the Prime Minister on his party's web site. A couple of points: The created image should be a jpg. It must be safe for work. It needs the correct MD5. It shouldn't break modern browsers. Its copyright should be free." Any takers?
Executing pedophiles would be a good start.
Take what ye can. Give nothing back!
WMD did exist. Talk about old rhetoric.
Actually Bill Clinton came to Bush's defense saying that for years first hand he saw plenty of intel proving the WMD existed. That is why he justified bombing Iraq. Heck, he also bombed Sudan on the basis that Sudan was developing WMD for Iraq. Over 30 different countries came forward with their own intel on Iraq's WMD. The UN Security Council unanimously voted over 75 times finding Iraq in violation of the terms of the cease-fire.
In case you forget, the terms of the cease fire authorized military force if Iraq was not COMPLETELY COMPLICIT in the terms. 75 violations is authorization in and of itself. Driving Kurds into the mountains and attempting genocide is authorization in and of itself. Shutting off and food and water to towns while building dozens of personal palaces is authorization in and of itself. The well being of 30 million people is authorization in and of itself. Recent statistics show Baghdad today is safer than Detroit.
Two weeks before we went into Iraq, Bush held a speech saying that we'd go into Iraq in two weeks. Immediately after that, we watched caravans of vehicles leave Baghdad heading for Syria and Colin Powell immediately said that we'd likely never find the huge stockpiles now as they were leaving the country.
Despite that we still found missiles filled with Sarin gas, documentation for WMD, storage facilities for WMD, training manuals for WMD, etc.
Never mind that both parties universally said that Iraq had and pursued WMD for over 11 years. Never mind the entire world said Iraq had WMD.
Clearly, one person made up the story years later, and people believed the lie retroactively before he was in office.
Your logic makes so much more sense, that you were modded up.
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And in all seriousness, we do appreciate it.
Speak for yourself you fucking douchebag.
We, the decent *citizens* of America, do not appreciate it *at all*. We have a hard enough time dealing with the criminals composing our government and moronic tools like you who refuse to ever actually think. Supporting your government in criminal actions makes you a fucking traitor you piece of shit. So if Australia and the rest of our sycophantic followers would grow a spine and start doing the right thing rather than blindly following along with our various hare brained schemes for world domination, then we'd not be as able to engage in them.
In short, grow up and be a man you pathetic boot licking coward.