Oz Censorship- Get Up

[abaddon]

Email recieved:

Hi,

Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world?

I've just signed a petition to prevent the scheme that will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally block up to one in 12 legitimate sites, will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped.
The government of the day may add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme.

Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. Can you join me and take action on the net today to save the net?

getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

Thanks!

Oddly enough, I can't even load the page.

wtf



Either way, if that info is even half accurate- I agree we need to take a stand!

The choice is (y)ours. Make noise. Noise is good.

[cafetimes1991]

Excellent post. :)

[morjo]

I highly doubt it's going to make the internet in Australia 87% slower, would like to know where they got that number from.

[wise haven]

As all Internet traffic will have to go through the censoring process it will create a hug bottle neck. So there will be a slowing down of traffic unless the govt puts in hug infrastructure to compensate for the loss in speed. 87% slower? dunno, but it is bound to be noticeable.

[morjo]

Of course it's going to be slower, that was the first thing on my mind, but a reduction of 87% is just not going to be the case. The government wouldn't go ahead with the censorship, if it were to reduce speeds by that amount it would bring most Australians web surfing back into or similar to the old dial up era. And as for the very few still on dial up, well they are in for some trouble.

Surly this would be similar to a proxy server or it is one, so hopefully each ISP would have a proxy server setup for the censorship. I can't imagine all of Australia's internet traffic being diverted to some government censorship system.