They can sensor television, but they can't censor the net? This isn't a new concept. It boils down to what types of media they censor. You can say whatever you want over the telephone lines, but they already censor radio waves. This is pretty much the same as censoring broadcast television, but not censoring the 'net. It's just that ANYONE can 'broadcast' over the net. You don't need a license.
Hrm.. this reminds me of a certain Orwellian novel. (-; I've heard that there is only a 100M landline (~=100 T1's?) going into Australia, and other providers rely on sattelite service. I'm sure that if the ISPs are not willing to comply, the landline can be censored, but how could sattelite reception be monitored? Much more difficult. I forsee an onslought of All-Porn ISPs. Much more hardcore than the average Australian porn-viewer sees today.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Impart information through any media regardless of frontiers.
We had equipment like this at my high school. Of course, it wasn't ultra-high quality or anything, but the video was very watchable. Equipment consisted of a film projector, a Digital Video Camera [*drool* I wants one (-;] and the "mounting bracket". The mounting bracket was quite simple. You had the projector at 90 degrees to the Camera, and there was a mirror that reflected the output into the input. I can't remember if there was a scrim to diffuse the light before it went into the camera or not, bit I do rember that it worked. Like I said, not ultra-high quality, but very watchable.
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They can sensor television, but they can't censor the net? This isn't a new concept. It boils down to what types of media they censor. You can say whatever you want over the telephone lines, but they already censor radio waves. This is pretty much the same as censoring broadcast television, but not censoring the 'net. It's just that ANYONE can 'broadcast' over the net. You don't need a license.
Hrm.. this reminds me of a certain Orwellian novel. (-; I've heard that there is only a 100M landline (~=100 T1's?) going into Australia, and other providers rely on sattelite service. I'm sure that if the ISPs are not willing to comply, the landline can be censored, but how could sattelite reception be monitored? Much more difficult. I forsee an onslought of All-Porn ISPs. Much more hardcore than the average Australian porn-viewer sees today.
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Impart information through any media regardless of frontiers.
And I thought the CRTC was going overboard... (-;
We had equipment like this at my high school. Of course, it wasn't ultra-high quality or anything, but the video was very watchable. Equipment consisted of a film projector, a Digital Video Camera [*drool* I wants one (-;] and the "mounting bracket". The mounting bracket was quite simple. You had the projector at 90 degrees to the Camera, and there was a mirror that reflected the output into the input. I can't remember if there was a scrim to diffuse the light before it went into the camera or not, bit I do rember that it worked. Like I said, not ultra-high quality, but very watchable.