the simple fact surrounding this is that the government needed to gain the support of 1-2 senators in the upper house to pass certain bills pertaining to the sale of telstra. To do this they bought these guys off (thanks a lot) and since one of the senators is an absolute fool it ends up that he wants A) mandatory internet censorship (to protect the innocent little children no doubt) and B)he's also managed to get the TV stations to censor a LARGE amount of what used to be allowed on.. My thanks extend to Senator Brian Harridine for these well thought out policies. I dont know how much its going to cost to censor the whole of the info filtering in and out of Australia (thats what he wants.. Great Wall of OZ neone?) but i intend to wait the few months it will take for someone to crack a program.. d/l it and continue searching for whatever i want to search for.
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the simple fact surrounding this is that the government needed to gain the support of 1-2 senators in the upper house to pass certain bills pertaining to the sale of telstra. To do this they bought these guys off (thanks a lot) and since one of the senators is an absolute fool it ends up that he wants A) mandatory internet censorship (to protect the innocent little children no doubt) and B)he's also managed to get the TV stations to censor a LARGE amount of what used to be allowed on.. My thanks extend to Senator Brian Harridine for these well thought out policies. I dont know how much its going to cost to censor the whole of the info filtering in and out of Australia (thats what he wants .. Great Wall of OZ neone?) but i intend to wait the few months it will take for someone to crack a program.. d/l it and continue searching for whatever i want to search for.