It’s not just a bad dream is it? It’s scary to think that this “idea” is still on the cards and sanity has yet to prevail. It’s even harder to believe that we have people sitting in Canberra believing they are leading some revolutionary crusade against the evils of the Internet. And thus the reason for another post on this topic! There’s so much wrong here on so many levels but the scariest thing to me is that once you head down a path like this, as I have mentioned before, it can only get worse.
straxd talked here about this a couple of months ago. We linked some stuff from D’s site here and included an article from overseas ridiculing this and we just keep thinking, it’ll all end soon…….but it doesn’t.
We can’t become complacent and expect it will [end soon]. It’s good to see people out there continuing to keep this protest going:
- BG’s link in the Forums
- Chris Berg opinion piece from The Age.
- No Clean Feed
- BAN.THIS.URL
Happy to get responses with more links to good sites. I know there is quite a few.
I wonder if sites that cover Information Security topics will also be filtered eventually!? Why would that be a dumb question? Hey, who would have thought a few years back we’d be talking about Australia becoming like China in terms of Internet censorship?!
All right here double D, all right here:
http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Australian_Internet_Filtering
D2 over and out.
One more thing….
How much fun will it be to:
a) hammer the shit out of the URL/URIs on the list once we get it or reverse engineer it…. see if the appliances or ‘block/404′ web servers can stand the pace of billions of http gets, then….
b) the ISP’s support lines get 1000’s of calls from grumpy customers whose internets don’t work properly…
Aside: We could do this with very few hosts, however once sinkholed and traced back/ACL’d -> we’d do better off with a voluntary anti-censorship fast flux botnet
or some fast pipes and an AVALANCHE !! http://www.spirent.com/analysis/technology.cfm?media=7&ws=325&ss=109&stype=15&a=1
One wonders if a blanket Act will be created to support the technical failings of the filtering making it illegal to “intentionally” by-pass government imposed Internet filters? Am sure if that is the case, they’ll find a better and more encompassing word than “intentionally” to cover those “unintentional” “mistakes”.
Am I being too 1984?
None of us should be complacent about this proposal.
Imagine if this:
If it were a trojan, malware or botnet that suddenly reduced our network speed by the large percentages being touted by filtering, there would be an enormous hue and cry – not just by die-hard IT types, but by ordinary mums and dads and mainstream media, and rightly so. You’d see Kevin ‘07 on the nightly tele, pushing his ‘war against the internet trojan’ as a matter of urgency affecting our national security.
Everyone needs to get behind the push to stop this insanity. Voice your opinion to the pollies. Get on twitter & tell Kev & Malcolm, or sign a petition. Just do something !
The save the net campaign already has around 73,000 signatures & growing daily at a very rapid rate.
Lets send a message to the pollies !
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
I also urge everyone reading this to get onto twitter & tell Kevin Rudd *directly* what they think, irrespective of political persuasions. This is all about the slippery slide into state censorship, and the govt “knowing best”.
http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM
Ironically, Rudd is currently throwing his support behind a proposed new Australian Bill of Rights, which includes free speech. How the f- internet censorship fits in with free speech is anyone’s guess.
Whether he reads it or not, who knows, but if he gets enough people messaging him on twitter, he may just take notice.
http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM/status/1022319085
I wonder if he gets it!
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