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Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"

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Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"

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Post by brc »

lkjhgbvbhnjmk wrote: post #13
spamizbad wrote: post #8

What is the Australian government's political rational behind implementing this plan? I highly doubt Australia has a contingent of voters who demand Internet censorship, and unlike China it's not like there's some sort of regime that needs to purge unfriendly ideas from circulating. This whole endeavor seems completely unnecessary. Any Australians know what the heck is behind this?

It's a hung parliament with the balance of power held by a small group of bible thumping right wingers. They wish to show to their voters that they are doing something to fight the waves of terrorism and filth that are warping the tiny minds of vunerable australian children. And to distract anyone from finding out about their affairs, dodgy real estate deals and child abuse.

That is an entirely inaccurate description of Australian politics. Bible thumping rarely appears in Australian political life. The current Prime Minister is a declared aetheist, and they can get just about any laws through with the support of the left-wing Green party.

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Post by dublinclontarf »

beilabs wrote: post #40
dublinclontarf wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry you're mistaken, the Great Firewall of China USED to be easily circumvented, now the only method is with a paid VPN connection (or a very kind person to share their bandwidth). Even Tor's been taken down.

@DublinClontarf, yeah, I used to use TOR hosted on a private slice, but thats also insecure. I'd use a paid VPN to buy pass it these days. Btw, I used to live in Clontarf for quite a while..

Was it East point business park that you worked?

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Post by phob »

lkjhgbvbhnjmk wrote: post #15
tkahn6 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...

Yes Australians had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people out of sight over a century rather than being all teutonic and efficient about it.

Yes, Americans had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people...

Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"

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Post by beilabs »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #42
beilabs wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@DublinClontarf, yeah, I used to use TOR hosted on a private slice, but thats also insecure. I'd use a paid VPN to buy pass it these days. Btw, I used to live in Clontarf for quite a while..

Was it East point business park that you worked?

Yeah, for about a year...then moved over here to Oz.

Catch me on twitter @beilabs

Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"

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Post by lkjhgbvbhnjmk »

brc wrote: post #41
lkjhgbvbhnjmk wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a hung parliament with the balance of power held by a small group of bible thumping right wingers. They wish to show to their voters that they are doing something to fight the waves of terrorism and filth that are warping the tiny minds of vunerable australian children. And to distract anyone from finding out about their affairs, dodgy real estate deals and child abuse.

That is an entirely inaccurate description of Australian politics. Bible thumping rarely appears in Australian political life. The current Prime Minister is a declared aetheist, and they can get just about any laws through with the support of the left-wing Green party.

The communications minister in charge of the filtering is a follower of the famous Jewish zombie.

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Post by dublinclontarf »

beilabs wrote: post #44
dublinclontarf wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was it East point business park that you worked?

Yeah, for about a year...then moved over here to Oz. Catch me on twitter @beilabs

Yeah everyone who can is leaving, theres nothing happening there now(Ireland not Oz, stayed in Oz for a couple of months with my aunt, great place, love the poisonous animals). Will do.
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