Australian Mandatory Internet Filter to Include P2P Traffic

The Australian Federal Government's controversial internet censorship plan to block "unwanted" content may extend to filter more web activity than first thought.

[whatis]

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[HowarthsNJ]

I thought the US crackdown on basic rights was severe, but not compared to this.

[SublimingMass]

so how is this going to work is it just websites then in the future P2P? just sounds they don't have a clue on what their trying to do

[TheColbertinator]

Soon the cleansing will begin...

[thereapersson]

Conroy should be thrown out of his position, or forcibly removed.

[kingtigar]

COMMUNIST AHHH! RUN!!

[UltimateIdiot911]

Pirates and Hackers UNITE!!! There is injustice in the internet.

[SaiyanFury]

This isn't even about hackers and pirates, it's about limiting a basic freedom of people. I'm glad I don't live in Australia, I'll be honest about that.

[dukegodtezza]

sad day to b an ozzie when u cant download porn

[psiom]

Note to non Australians:

Be very afraid if this passes here, stays unopposed, and gains positive media spin.

Your country will be next.

I wish I knew how it could be stopped.

[jmiscavish]

We just need to check who we vote into office. If they pass legislation we don't like, we'll have to vote them out the next turn.

But, yes, on the whole this is very, very disturbing news.

They'll spin it like "new technology to stop hackers" when really it stops ALL OF US.

[Pebz]

Australia is the perfect testing ground; a "western" country, but so far away for the rest of the western world to think it will affect them.

Who is in office has hardly ever made any change, people really need to stop ignoring their own responsibility by saying "the politicians will sort it out", because they won't.

"First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me -
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me."

Is a quote still very relevant today (change groups to fit a given situation), so people should be paying attention to what happens in other places, even if they live on the other side of the earth.

[jmiscavish]

Don't they have more important things to police? Like bunnies and dingos?

[mirroredderorrim]

Sadly, no. The internet is now cutting into a lot of revenue streams, so these companies want what they have been missing out on.

Moves like this will only fuel a new kind of war, the war for data, the right to information. I hope we don't end up a movie, where humanity has to fight itself for freedom, oh wait...

[VMAN_01]

Man I live in Australia worst thing about it is that reportidly slows internet speeds down as well as if their not slow enough here in Australia.

[VMAN_01]

See this is all Rudd's fault maybe someone left a copy on 1984 in a pariliment meeting and the labour government picked it up mistaking it for a policy.

[karlostomy]

I used to like living in australia

[bigshynepo]

This is garbage and if you think it doesn't concern you, think again! First Australia and then where will it end?

[radzy]

damn, i know a few of those guys