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Australian Internet Censorship

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 09:07 WST —

The Australian government, in an effort to protect “The Children” are trying to put into effect, Internet censorship at the ISP level.  This is stupid, ignoring the moral, and social reasons for a second (as these are generally very gray areas), you can look at the technical reasons.

For one, it can slow down your Internet connection as much as 80%, not only that, but, well, it won’t really stop anyone from getting to filtered websites.  You could easily get around it by just setting up a VPN, or other proxy service for your connection.  As the saying goes, “Locks only keep honest people out”.