Censorship in OZ!

[corneus]

Like probably most people on this forum, I enjoy a bit of porn now and then : .. Imagine my surprise when my favourite source of saucy video clips wouldn't let me log in! Instead of their welcome screen, I got a message basically saying "Due to new Australian laws this site is not available from this IP address" and I got a re-direct to the Google search page!
This is not a good sign! What the hell are these new laws? Anybody got any ideas?

Bugger, dude! :angry1: :angry1:

 

[bob88]

hhehe which source is this?

 

[Naughty Thoughts]

Current Internet censorship law stuffs, straight from the gov sites.

A good discussion about said laws. Although not exactly unbiased, has good points.

This was slashdot'ed back in 1999, yet we didn't know too much about it. I wonder why they didn't spend as much money advertising these changes as they did advertising the new Work Choices? Hmm?

And there's more here. Strangely enough, I found out about this from this blog, the Jan 21 entry (couldn't link directly).

 

[svengali]

Hugh Hefner said it best about censorship when he described it as "the ultimate insult to the intelligence of adults".

Why should a bunch of god-bothering clergymen and other assorted wowsers tell anyone what they can and cannot view/read/perve on? The government should have bigger fish to fry than this.

 

[corneus]

2008? - 1984!

Thanks for the feedback Mac and Lone Road. The info on your links is very disturbing! I haven't had a good look yet, but it doesn't seem easy to "opt-out" of the new laws clean-feed requirements. Certainly nobody ever asked me what I wanted! :angry1::angry1:

 

[Naughty Thoughts]

The current "simple" workaround is to run through a proxy server in another country.

These are relatively simple to set up (or so I hear), moreso if you're a Linux user. I've yet to encounter a site that I wanted to look at that was blocked, except for statracker (for seeing how many people visit my site(s)). For some reason, I've never been able to access that one...