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Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials

Posted by timothy on from the you-expect-free-choice-from-the-government? dept.

newt writes "The Australian Government is planning to conduct live trials of as-yet-unspecified censorship technology. But as every geek already knows, these systems can't possibly work in the presence of VPNs and proxy servers. PC Authority clues the punters in." Maybe the ISPs secretly like encouraging SSH tunneling — and making everyone pay for the extra bandwidth used. Not really; Australia's major ISPs, as mentioned a few days ago, think it's a bad idea.

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  1. Re:First, We Take the Guns. by Merls+the+Sneaky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not flamebait mods, he is stating facts. It's illegal to carry a knife in Australia "without good reson".

    No personal safetly isn't a reason apparently.

  2. Re:First, We Take the Guns. by deniable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And it's legal to own a firearm with good reason. It's flame-bait because he's spouting the 'they took away you guns' bullshit that pro-machinegun idiots have been spouting for years.