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Ehtyar:
And in a final, resounding demonstration of the technical incompetence and complete lack of understanding of the current Australian Government, Crown Senatorial Twitrocket Stephen Conroy gave media outlets an hour and a half notice on Tuesday, December 15th 2009 that a press conference was to be held to announce that the Great Aussie Firewall will be legislated into existence in the new year.

Despite abysmal results in the the "pilot" program run earlier this year, and the admission that any technically competent individual could easily circumvent the "filters" (among other astounding failures - see the full article), Australian ISPs will be forced to deny access to any overseas website "refused classification" by the Australian Communications and Media Authority at the network level.


All hail Chairman Rudd.

Ehtyar.

zridling:
Australia, Britain, and China: three countries that are hard on netizens. Whenever a government wants to take away a liberty, they usually reach for the "child porn" card. Meanwhile, in the US and Britain, we're holding "piracy summits" to help corporations enact ACTA legislation. All this bodes ill for economic leadership to say the least.

4wd:
I tried to think of something intelligent and articulate to say regarding this abuse of power by the technologically illerate cretins but all I could really come up with was.....

F@#$&^$ S!@%H%$#+!!!!!!!!!

Innuendo:
F@#$&^$ S!@%H%$#+!!!!!!!!!
-4wd (December 15, 2009, 03:43 AM)
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Took the words right out of my mouth. This scheme smacks of computer-illiterate politicians of the 1990s providing a knee-jerk reaction to dangers on 'the intertubes'. I'd have thought government would be more technologically more enlightened in 2009.

4wd:
BTW Ehtyar, where'd you dig up that picture of the Chairman?

I need one that's 1680x1050 :(

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