Internet Censorship by the Australian Government is not Opt-Out
Friday, October 17th, 2008It appears that Australian Internet users will be unable to opt-out of the Australian Government’s Internet content filtering scheme. The scheme was launched last year and will use ISP-level filtering to block access to content deemed “illegal” (nice and vague, huh?) by the Australian Government.
We were promised that we’d be able to opt-out of these filters but, according to an Internode network engineer, you can only opt-out from the “additional material” part of the blacklist and not the main, “illegal material” part.
You can read all about this here:
- Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng’s writes ‘Net filters “required” for all Australians, no opt-out‘
- Computerworld’s Darren Pauli writes ‘No opt-out of filtered Internet‘
Rebecca said,
October 24, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
You’ve probably read this, but I thought it should be a relevant link too:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/23/1224351430987.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Ameel Khan said,
October 24, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
I hadn’t read that, actually. Thanks! Also worth checking out is AngryAussie’s take on all this.
First his rant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j23gK2r525g
Then his what-to-do-about-it video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXSvzvQC5v0
And finally his follow-up which talks about hardcore pornography in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1mkcAP2TuA
Rebecca said,
October 26, 2008 @ 10:37 pm
And another blog that you might enjoy
http://blog.nocleanfeed.com/
Detailing various issues with the internet filtering
Ameel Khan said,
October 27, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Awesome. Thanks!