Oz Pirate Party Tells the Elderly How To Bypass the Net Filter

mask.of.sanity writes "When Exit International discovered it was earmarked for Australia's Internet filter blacklist, it wanted to ensure its members could access its pro-euthanasia material, but its members share an average age of 70 — not exactly from the tech generation. So Exit International turned to the filter-hating Pirate Party of Australia, which supplied a 'hacker' who taught a crowded room of grandmas and grandpas how to use proxies and advanced VPN tunnels to access Exit International's material — which the Australian government thinks breaches the moral compass of society. Computerworld has the presentation."

Comments

Re:It sure feels odd

[BikeHelmet]

It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves.

Yes, it would.

And yet technically we do that every day. Our media glamorizes things like fast food... okay, perhaps McDonalds isn't so popular anymore, but there seems to be an abundance of advertisements for food that can be cooked in 5 minutes flat. I'm sure eating that food for years and years and years is going to have an effect. The media used to favour smoking - it was huge in both ads and TV shows. These are just two ways of slowly killing yourself, which could knock decades off your life.

Well... a car crash, a gun shot to the head, and an overdose on drugs are also ways of knocking decades off your life. You just see the result a bit sooner.

Is it the abruptness of it? I don't know. Technically we should be just as disturbed by an obese diabetic person looking up dutch recipes(Mmmm!... sugar and butter!), as an elderly person looking up euthanasia. They're both killing themselves, because they want their lives to be more enjoyable. And yet if they had pills in their hand, you'd stop them - but if they had candy, you probably wouldn't. :/

I'm not sure what I'd do, but I try not to be a hypocrite about such things. It's your life - just be aware there's no reset button, and the choices you make do affect everyone left behind.

Re:Australia used to be part of the Commonwealth

[QuantumG]

Probably the funniest thing you've ever written dude, and I notice that you do know how to make capital letters.. you're so close!