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 mjwx · 2011-07-04 13:17 · Score: 0, Troll

But even I know that you'll get better Internet access to anything by not using a terrible provider like Optus or Telstra.
Fixed.

Anyone with an ounce of technical or financial acumen knows to avoid Optus and Telstra like the plague.

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