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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. China! by vik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Won't it be embarrassing when people start routing their traffic through China to get around American and Australian internet legislation?

    Vik :v)

  2. Advantages to Censorship by Sasayaki · · Score: 4, Funny

    As an Australian who fervently opposes Chairman Rudd's censorship bill...

    There is one advantage I can see to all of this. Big Brother will block anything illegal and offensive to me, right? So I can download absolutely anything I DO find since it MUST be legal. After all, the censorship is perfect!

    Pirate bay here I come!

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  3. Re:The old saying still holds by Speare · · Score: 4, Funny

    (And if you don't know who, turn in your Slashdot account by tomorrow morning.)

    Translation:

    (And if you don't know who, I'm too lazy to google it for you as it has slipped my mind also.)

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