[LINK] is this legal to access in Australia?

Tom Koltai tomk at unwired.com.au
Wed Dec 16 17:52:24 AEDT 2009



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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Marghanita da Cruz
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2009 12:03 PM
> To: Jan Whitaker
> Cc: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] is this legal to access in Australia?
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> 
<SNIP>

>Guess there will be a bit more of a
>delay on tweets....how many censors
>would it take?
>
>Marghanita

An interesting point.

I wonder how the filter will handle Twitter, IM, IRC, MSNchat and Yahoo.

The file transfer capabilities of those programs are all well known.

And the content of some of the chatrooms? Well they make my toes curl
up...
(I must be getting' old.)

So if the Internet filter is there to keep our kids away from smut and
dirty old people with evil intentions, then how are the chatrooms going
to be filtered?

Because of two teenagers in this house (ok one is 22 and the other is
18) both use IM programs, a couple of multi-player games, facebook and
youtube and that's pretty much their internet.

I don't actually see them being protected from anything very much by the
senators filter. 

On the other hand, one takes martial arts and the other boxing... And
they're boys - probably dont need that much protecting.

On another note - Im notincing VPN trafiic growing exponentially at an
alarming rate.

Soon the interception act wont actual be able to intercept very much at
all.

Filter..... What filter? 
Oh the political editing filter.
Yes that one.
Doesn't bother me - I'm spoofed and bounce off two caches in two
separate continents with dynamic 128 bit encryption.
Really?
Only if I want to watch American or UK IP number only available content.

Of course if the filter is implemented - well then I will just have to
do it all the time.

Then again, Radar detectors were made illegal (1991) when speed guns
game in.... So maybe VPN's and encryption will be made illegal as well.

Sigh.... Civil rights, chip chip chipping away to nothing.

Tom











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