[LINK] Weinstein: Conroy Bananas
George Bray
georgebray at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 18:33:36 AEDT 2008
On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Brendan Scott <brendansweb at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I'm not following, I thought that the proposal was that anyone could elect to opt out of the filters?
> If so, this argument doesn't make much sense to me.
I just don't feel that anyone (Govt, carriers, ISPs) has the ability
to achieve their censorship goal, and in the meantime everyone by
default gets poorer internet performance. Leave alone the question of
who decides what gets filtered and the prospect of some future
authority extending the scope of censorship into other realms deemed
"inappropriate".
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
More comments are now under the original article. Right on Stil.
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George Bray, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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