Internet filtering to target 'instruction in drug use'

[flatcat_auz]

Interesting especially the drug references.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12...?section=justin

[bufo marinus]

The Australian Christian lobby also backs the Government's plan, as does Family First Senator Steve Fielding.

But the Greens are not impressed.

They say they will not support the legislation and they doubt it will become law any time soon.

 

If only the'd ban fuckin religion. That crap makes my blood boil.

Thank god < pun for The Greens and common sense. The morale minority need burning at the stake

Edited December 16, 2009 by bufo marinus

[flatcat_auz]

More wanting to discuss whether, as I read (and I can't find it now grrrr)a labor senator say that sites that have in-depth information about the manufacture of drugs would be on the prohibited with the new firewall.

Has anyone heard similar and if so would this have implications for this site?

[420 HELI]

Telstra, Optus and Primus have announced their support for the scheme

[MadamePandora]

Perhaps someone with some authority on this site can find out if we will be affected by this bullshit. And if there is a way around it.

[Al B. Fuct]

So says Reichsinfomeister Stephen Conroy:

 

From: http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/speeches/2009/075

 

To strengthen cyber-safety the Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act, to require all ISPs to block material rated Refused Classification that is hosted on overseas servers and therefore not subject to the existing take-down regime.

 

Refused Classification, or RC-rated material includes child sex abuse content, bestiality, sexual violence including rape and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use.

 

You can bet he means cannabis forums.

 

Is there already a topic running on this issue on OSA? If so, please point me.

 

If not, this is as good a place as any to suggest that you set up a VPN (Virtual Private Network) account with a point of presence in the USA. A VPN will carry your traffic across the government filter with strong encryption. OSA uses https, so the traffic between you & OSA is secure, but that won't stop the gubmint from blocking OSA at the ISP level. You'll have to proxy around the filter if OSA gets blacklisted.

[Pickle]

Bastard! Fucking bastard!

 

There's gonna be a votin'.

 

Edit: WTF happened there? I was going to be the third post and had clicked a link in the second post and the link broke and now i am the second post.

Edited December 16, 2009 by Pickle

[Frazz]

ok i merged these topics and there another one i cant find ... sorry if thread is somewhat jumbled up

 

now this internet filter is not yet law , proposing to table it in Parliment next year i believe nevertheless its a worry

 

[Rocker]

Hopefully this insanity will be blocked in the Senate.

[Al B. Fuct]

Frazz, thanks for merging my post into this thread.

 

Rocker, Labor's got 32 Senate seats, LNP has 37, there's 4 Greens, 1 Family First (Fielding) and 1 independent (Xenophon).

 

If The Liberals support the rubbish, it'll pass.

 

If the Libs oppose, Labor needs to get all 4 Greens and either Fielding or Xenophon to vote for it- and the Greens are already out as deadset against it. Xenophon is also opposed. Fielding is in favour of censorship. Labor doesn't tolerate its members crossing the floor- dissenters are expelled from the ALP.

 

However, the LNP does tolerate dissenters. If the LNP opposes, Labor would need 6 Libs cross the floor to pass amendments to the Broadcast Services Act to enact filtering.

 

There's another procedural way around a Senate vote to enact filtering, damned if I can find the details at the moment.

 

It must be incredibly tempting for the Libs to support censorship; one of these days, they'll be out of the political woodshed and like any politician, they'd LOVE to be able to suppress public debate of govt policy.

 

-edit- At this moment, the Libs oppose the censorship plan. http://www.liberal.org.au/news.php?Id=4361

 

-edit II- forgot about Fielding (he's pretty forgettable), edited him into this post.

Edited December 16, 2009 by Al B. Fuct