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Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship
bennyboy64 writes "iTnews reports that the Australian Government has announced its intention to introduce legislation that will make ISP-level filtering mandatory for all refused classification material hosted overseas. The Government intends to amend the Broadcasting Services Act in August 2010 to enforce the filter, and expects the filter to be operational within a further twelve months. 'The report into the pilot trial of ISP-level filtering demonstrates that blocking RC-rated material can be done with 100 percent accuracy and negligible impact on internet speed' Senator Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy said." This despite, as reader Sharky2009 writes, the trial run showing that "a technically competent user could circumvent filtering technology based on ACMA’s blacklist."
Well, since Australia, as we all know, is entirely populated by criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, I can clearly not choose the unfiltered internet in front of me.
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Australia after all it has been through!
Leave Australia alone! Right now! I mean it!
Well our president was given the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in... um... let me get back to you on that.
Who says we are?
The Labor party (Current government) was meant to be liberal and reformist. The alternative is the Liberal party who despite there name are mostly socially conservative Christians. They just finished voting out Malcom Turnbull their former leader who was clearly too liberal and replacing him with Tony Abbot a Christian conservative who suffice to say holds a number of opinions that don't exactly resonate with the more liberally minded.
Anyway despite that I say fuck the Labor party. I'll vote for the Liberals next election. Maybe for 3 years it wouldn't be the perfect government. But it's better than voting for the status-quo of simply being ass-raped by greedy bastards.
As for young people the best way to make a real difference on this is to talk to your parents and grandparents (If they're still alive). Your vote alone isn't worth as much as the votes of both your parents and yours combined.
Hardly any of the chicks in Neighbours are hot nowadays for starters!
Even Steph now has a few rough edges, and Susan is getting too old to be milf material.
How could you let your finest export slide like this?
And soon after, the border guard will also jump on the "deep inspection" hype bandwagon, marking a sharp increase in the sales figures of Crisco brand vegetable shortening.
What a depressingly stupid machine.