1,300 sites already on Australia censor list
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Around 1,300 websites have already been designated as undesirable by the Australian Communications and Media Authority as part of its self-appointed role as Net Censor.
Under a Rudd government edict, the Australian Net Curtain, similar to China’s, means citizens will have to use to a ‘filter,’ whether they want it or not.
Just in time for Christmas.
The proposed Net censorship plan would ban “controversial websites,” said The Courier-Mail.
The Kevin Rudd administration is, “investing millions of dollars on delivering faster broadband services to Australian homes at the same time it is investing millions of dollars to slow it down,” said Adelaide Now.
As opposition grows, “against the Government’s controversial plan to censor the internet,” Michael Malone, managing director iiNet, one of Australia’s largest ISPs, has agreed be involved in the ‘ridiculous’ trials, slated to start on December 24, says the Sydney Morning Herald.
The censorship tool, “is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified ‘unwanted content’,” says the Herald Sun, quoting the Courier-Mail
Communications minister senator Conroy revealed details of the proposed web filter, “as he called for expressions of interest from internet service providers (ISPs) for a live trial of the technology,” says the story.
“ISPs will test ways to filter the web using volunteer subscribers. The trial will start before Christmas and is expected to last six weeks.”
A Conroy spokesman said the pilot will, “provide an invaluable opportunity for ISPs to inform the Government’s approach”.
It’ll provide valuable, “real-world evidence of the potential impact on internet speeds and costs to industry and will help ensure we implement a filtering solution that is efficient, effective and easy for Australian families to use,” he said
An ACMA trial of web-filtering technology this year found it could slow internet access by as much as 87 per cent and by at least 2%, adds the Herald Sun.
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Adelaide Now – Stranglehold on the internet, October 27, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald – Net censorship plan backlash, November 11, 2008
Herald Sun – Australian web filter to block 10,000 internet sites, November 13, 2008
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November 14th, 2008 at 11:20 am
ya know whats neat about the unitedhackers association DNS
I an remotely point that DNS to ANY IP on earth
ANY
that means that if the aussie people really want to show how stupid htis is i would offer this:
Any australian who wishes to host or have a website contact me, email is above.
i’ll point one of three domains and heres how to have fun with this.
get ten or twenty and we will rove the domain on non static ips until ALL of australia is banned form there own retardedness.
Should be fun EH?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Europe can be much worse than Australia when it comes to internet censorship. Just ask Australian historian Dr. Fredrick Töben. He was arrested recently when visiting England and held for extradition to Germany.
His crime? Running a website (accessible to Germans) that challenged the official German government-approved version of WWII history – a serious crime in Germany, even if “committed” outside Germany’s borders, in a country such as Australia which safeguards the right of freedom of speech.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Like I have said it is not just the censorship, what about us all getting still our basic paid for internet service still
Vigilance, continual Vigilance is need in all areas of life it seems cause otherwise our rights are abused, overlooked, falsely censored even. Such as the ISP, Internet service providers obligations to their customers, contractual agreements, On top of that there is no question that many major Internet corporations profit have also been built on the back of free labor, the free contributors. Which they tend to no longer appreciated and restrict falsely access to many of these sites now instead. Ever discover that while the main search engines will readily give you a list of sites, that you may next have difficulties accessing many of these sites next ands why is that? The access and the speed aren’t too bad but still only during certain, limited portions of day or night. Such internet traffic management is really really unacceptable.
I too have discovered often that while I personally do also have many blogs, internet sites, next my own accessibility to these sites is it seems unnecessary restricted, difficult, and one of the main valid explanations as many of us already do know is the false periodic unacceptable capping, throttling, access restrictions, by the ISP, internet Service Suppliers themselves. I too now do have no sympathy for almost any of ISPs. They firstly do still to often lie lie to get customers and next when they get them they cannot honor, keep their original promises, promised speeds and capacities It’s one thing to gouge us all with continual increase rates but not to keep also same promised original service. No, no, no. ISPs are not only raising their rates but still also decreasing their services and the quality of it as well..
For if they were to invest in newer, better infrastructure to raise capacity, they would even get more customers. It’s much, much cheaper to throttle torrent traffic or do nothing than it is to expand the overused, obsolete infrastructure. If even Microsoft, corporations, companies & governments are distributing more and more content through the internet then all of the ISPs have to keep up to date and increase their capacity in response. Other countries are embracing this, and have brighter economic futures & control, profitability, consumer satisfactions as well.
Time for just more of our complaining, talking over and over again is done, rather real actions is required now even by the governments to protect the consumers.
72 percent of businesses say they would change ISP if their Internet connection became unreliable. The independent research carried out by Shape the Future Limited on behalf of Zen Internet, the award winning ISP, surveyed over a 1,000 Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) between September and October.
An important decisive factor for SMEs is the level of support provided by ISPs: 85 percent stated that the level of support was the most important criteria when choosing an ISP while the highest number of respondents, 80 per cent, considers UK based support to be very important. Some ISP providers have been criticised for taking telephone support overseas and cutting staffing costs.
Just over half of those asked, 55 per cent were happy with their current supplier and were unlikely to change, 45 percent are unhappy. and 68 per cent had not changed ISP in the last year but 13 per cent are considering changing ISP at present. When they do, it’s mainly when there are issues with reliability, quality of service, cost or for higher speeds. It was found that 72 per cent of SMEs said they would change provider because of unreliable connection, but note only 40 per cent would change to save money.
98 per cent of SMEs consider reliable Internet access to be critical to the needs of their business. 71 per cent of SMEs thought it was important that their ISP was business orientated, as 80 per cent use the Web to locate suppliers and 76 per cent use it for purchasing activities.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/153974/small_businesses_to_isps_deliver_or_well_switch.html
Deceptive, unfair, restrictive Business trade practices by the ISP’s.
“A lawsuit filed against Apple and AT&T on November 4, 2008 charging misrepresentation of the 3G speed of the iPhone on AT&T’s network, has also been amended with an additional charge. The new charge claims the iPhone develops hairline cracks in the housing. Filed in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, Avi Koschitzki claims in the amended charge that hairline cracks in the casing of the iPhone constitute unfair practices under the New York Deceptive Practices Act. Koschitzki said the cracks appear around the camera and near the volume button on the side of the iPhone.
The initial lawsuit claims that Apple and AT&T misrepresented the speed of the iPhone on AT&T’s 3G network. The suit claims insufficient infrastructure of the network and the fact that so many phones have been sold that it can’t handle the volume of phones trying to use it. “Due to the overloaded 3G network, it is quite common for iPhone users to only be on the 3G network for a few minutes before being bumped to the slower EDGE network despite being in geographical areas allegedly rich with 3G network coverage,” reads the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is seeking a jury trial where they are asking for statutory, compensatory and punitive damages.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154018/apple_sued_for_hairline_cracks_in_the_iphone.html
Now we all can know that driving a sports car on an empty road produces a different sped from that when driving on the same road during peak traffic hours.
Now this Mis-advertisement of the actual speeds attained also reflects the common problem we tend to have also in Canada with the false, misleading advertising, trade practices by Bell, Rogers, Videotron in regard to the speeds of their iphone and DSL, ADSL, cable internet services. These Communication, ISP firms amongst others are known to inflate, advertise substantially higher speeds than the consumer will actual get next get on the average, and the next related internet congestion cause web connectivity problems, and also reductions of the downloads speeds too..
Now what about having now the much need real consumer protections for the citizens of Canada here as well from the greedy, lying, no good corporations?
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