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Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered
Slatterz writes "The first phase of
Australia's controversial Internet filters were put in place today, with the Australian government announcing that six ISPs will take part in a six-week pilot. The plan reportedly includes a filter blocking a list of Government-blacklisted sites, and an optional adult content filter, and the government has said it hasn't ruled out the possibility of filtering BitTorrent traffic. The filters have been widely criticized by privacy groups and Internet users, and people have previously even taken to the streets to protest. While Christian groups support the plan, others say filters could slow down Internet speeds, that they don't work, and that the plan amounts to censorship of the Internet. At this stage the filters are only a pilot, and Australia's largest ISP, Telstra, is not taking part. But if the $125.8 million being spent by the Australian Government on cyber-safety is any indication, it's a sign of things to come."
if it wasn't so outrageous it'd be funny, labour gets back into power and the first thing they do is give us a 100 billion debt and filter our internet.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Well, you're almost right. See, the English are a bunch of pussies and they run the country by suppressing the Irish (who made up most the convicts you mention).
How we know is more important than what we know.
Our prime minister is a communist. He is good pals with the Chinese who send their prostitutes/women to his office to, persuade him.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"