Latest Australian Internet Censorship Campaign Begins To Widespread Protests
from the free-the-internet dept
The latest in a long line of attempts by the Australian government to censor the internet is now starting, as ISPs are beginning to filter the internet (sometimes under protest), agreeing to block access to sites on a government blacklist. This plan will cost Austrlian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, on top of the large amounts already spent on earlier plans that failed.In response to the start of the new filtering, Australian citizens are taking to the streets in protest, though it's unclear how much of an impact that will have. Once these "trials" fail, with both false positives and false negatives, maybe, just maybe someone in power down under will recognize that censorship is just a bad idea.
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What's that? Only certain censorship is bad? Only if we disagree with it?
We're no different, it's just in different areas run by different people.
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You are an idiot.
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And where might those be?
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Grade school is NOT THE PLACE for improper science.
It is only censorship in the same way that we don't allow teachers to teach that 1+2=4, for very high values of 1.
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Try one of the following satire sites:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
http:/ /encyclopediadramatica.com/Main_Page
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If censorship is such a bad idea, then when are we going to start seeing peer-reviewed repeatable experiments that damage evolution/big bang in schools.
Same reason they don't teach that vampires are real in school.
Censorship is not the same as saying fiction is the truth.
How does blocking porn sites in anyway related to not being allow to teach fiction in schools?
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When they exist you will, until then we teach science not dogma.
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Its starting...
Governments, You work for the PEOPLE & we will revolt.
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FSM
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Cleanfeed
http://nocleanfeed.com/learn.html
also there is a protest planned for Melbourne on the 13th, state library. Facebook details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46838735931
There will be protests in most major cities on that day around the country.
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this is the worst idea ever
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