In Australia, Censorship vs. DNS, and Porn As Network Driver

Posted by timothy on Monday July 4, 2011 @10:26AM from the ok-you're-going-to-need-2-jiggers-of-porn dept.

daria42 writes "Remember how Australia's planning to censor its Internet? Well, it looks as though the country's second-largest ISP, Optus, has made a stumble right out of the gate. Optus today confirmed you could circumvent its filtering technology simply by setting your PC to use a different DNS server than the default. Yup, it's really that easy. Oops." And why would anyone want to change their DNS settings? angry tapir writes "While the Australian Government has extolled the virtues of its currently under construction National Broadband Network (NBN) in delivering e-health and government agency services to every Australian, adult content will be the major driver of consumer adoption."

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Re:I'm new to Australia by captain_sweatpants · 2011-07-04 13:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

To say they were incompetent, would still be a disgusting insult to the incompetent.
Yes this perfectly describes the situation in Australia. Senator Conroy (the man responsible) simply refuses to listen to the advice of anyone who disagrees with his ideology or points out the gaping flaws in the implementation. He is obsessed by his own personal ambitions and is too stupid to recognise good advice when he receives it.

It seems, that Australia went for the political suicide.
I certainly hope this is the case, although I have my doubts. Apparently being stupendously incompetent is insufficient grounds for removing a minister from their post. I fear this will be one in a long serious of blunders he inflicts on the Australian people.