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A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-can't-read-this-you-know-why dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Another one bites the dust, as New Zealand's Internet filter stealthily goes live with two smaller ISPs, and three of the largest already rumoured to have signed up to do the same. However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is apparently 'committed to helping people to circumvent government internet filtering,' so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?" Clever of one of the acquiescing ISPs to have named itself "Watchdog."

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  1. Re:Like many fads, by SolidAltar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Correction in the quote:
    "Like many fads, internet censorship too will never last"

  2. Re:Like many fads, by ibsteve2u · · Score: 1, Troll

    I forsee neither of these going away anytime soon. As in, Ever.

    I don't see 'em going away, either - not when we have power-hungry groups who have been including the Internet in their thinking for some time.

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    Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
  3. Re:Two words by Krneki · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dropping connections that want to hanshake encryptions / look encrypted.

    IP-bans of proxies; general useleness of open proxies; ease of proxy detections.

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    Do not solve social problem with technical means, it will never work (see: drm).

    If you allow HTTPS site you can't block SSH tunneling.

    And there are also VPN connections.

    --
    Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
  4. Re:Um why by GigaplexNZ · · Score: 1, Troll

    and nothing but the internet

    But my ISP comes with a free* VoIP account with a DID (Direct In-Dial) number. Claiming to offer nothing in the way of addons isn't the best way to go.

    * There are some fees for making long distance calls