Comments on: Australia To Build Great Firewall Down Under

By: Bastard Sheep

Bastard Sheep — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:48:02 +0000

I think it’ll be fun, personally. We can have little battles to see whose firewall is the best. The Great Firewall of China or the Rabbit Proof Firewall of Australia.

By: Alan C

Alan C — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:21:11 +0000

Matt K, Sadly Conroy and Labor never considered dropping it, they've supported it more strongly than the Liberals.It was an election commitment made by Conroy (probably on Rudd's orders) just before the election campaign started last year.

I don't know what the Senate can do about it, but if the Liberals and the Greens or Sen. Xenophon used their majority of votes there maybe they could do something.

Unfortunately, the Liberals probably like the idea.

I agree with you about these ministers having no idea about the industry and technology.

I can't see why this hasn't generated any attention. The Government wants to compulsory filter everyone's internet at cost to the economy (slower connections) and personal freedoms (censoring).

Why is the media ignoring this? I watch the news every day, and I haven't seen it on the TV news. I wouldn't even know about it if I hadn't seen a few times in the Australian.

By: stevenson

stevenson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:28:12 +0000

this is gay. f$^king hell.

By: Matt K

Matt K — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:57:04 +0000

I think the thing to be aware of thou, this has nothign to do with Kevin Rudd, this was something that started in the days of Family First's ranks just after John Howard was elected, and has been talked about for over 4-5 years now, and yet it still hasnt happened.

Stephen Conroy was going to drop it, but them someone got under his sleves and got him re-interested in it at the start of this year.

Im sick of Ministers for Broadband/Internet/Technology in australia been given to those who have no idea of how the industry works, or the technology.

Could almost say that about any minister of anything in australia.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:46:28 +0000

this is absolute bull. i cant believe that our goverment would try to do something like this. once the goverment has the power to block whatever it likes you know that further down the road they will end up banning whatever they like.

and you know that once the goverment can ban anything that public groupd will put pressure on the goverment to ban whatever they like. think religuos groups putting pressure on the goverment to ban anything with a MA symbol on it.

this is he worst goverment EVER sure he signed the kiyoto agreement but he signed away our freedom on the internet. i hope someone does some thing that will make the goverment stop. . . . . . not sugesting anything. . .

By: bluemukaki

bluemukaki — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:24:32 +0000

I sure am pleased I live in Tassie, if the map is anything to go by we wont be censored!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:32:15 +0000

I think TOR is about to get much more popular in Australia. Since its impossible to filter every single TOR node in any kind of blacklist, that should do the job.

Time to set up a TOR node on my main box!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:38:42 +0000

Well this is just ridiculous. Three cheers for the Australia big brother state!

Also, bloomin' onions are American, and Australia also includes this little island to the south of it called Tasmania. Just a heads up

By: chaoscurious

chaoscurious — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:06:28 +0000

My illegal content is not your illegal content

By: marc burg

marc burg — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:24:21 +0000

NO!