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Aussie Gov't To Introduce Bill That Would Require ISP-Level Censorship

Posted by timothy on from the lovely-people-shame-about-the-government dept.

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."

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  1. Leave australia Alone by wiredog · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod me down but while I think Australians should be able to access the internet and communicate freely I think they should be left alone to work out their own problems. Australia has been under attack for a very long time and you have to bear in mind the US relationship with the Pacific region hasn't exactly been hmmm how shall we say very fair. The US has been happy to triain death squads at the school of americas http://www.soaw.org/ [soaw.org] and fund the over throw of democractically ellected goverments (Chile, Nicuragua, Guatmala most recenly the atempt in Venuzuela and not to mention Syrian and Iran) so you could see the leader ship in Australia might be a little paranoid.

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  2. Re:Would this block web stores? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, since Australia, as we all know, is entirely populated by criminals

    Totally, I mean look at that monster Josef Fritzl. What kind of wackjobs are living down under anyways?

  3. well australia did give us freud and mozart by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    and i always liked "the sound of music"

    maybe the usa can loan arnold schwarzenegger back to the country of his birth, to clean things up in australia, terminator style?

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  4. Re:what the fuck. by dk90406 · · Score: 0, Troll
    No, I am sorry. They are working on a bill that will abolish elections in Australia. The bill will say that ant other parties are opposed to protecting the children. Anyone who opposes the bill is obviously a child abuser.

    I wish you a good safe life down under.