Strictly speaking, not EVERYONE is repulsed by child pornography, otherwise the issue wouldn't exist would it?! But in general, you have to love these aussies' tendency to say what they think and not pussyfoot about: calling the minister the "worst in history" is certainly not trying to dress things up is it??

Good stuff :-)

Seems the gov down here is now witch hunting online:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/labors-blogwatch-plan-hits-whirlpool-of-dissent-20090321-951z.html

euthanasia sites, Christian and satanic sites.

Equal opportunity bigotry. So that's all right then.

Err I hate to say this but such individuals tend to amongst the 2nd wave to drift to less traceable methods of accessing their material. With the 1st being us 'normal people' who simply value their privacy. You know the wierd sorts who prefer their bills to be inside envelopes to prevent strangers from reading stuff addressed to us.

The great firewall idea doesn't work and anybody with 1/3rd of a clue knows this already. But the stated reason for the blacklisting (and the only one with a vaguely sensible reason for existing) is to stop people from accidently browsing those sites. I won't get into the whole thing of goverment control of information.

The kiddie porn freaks have long since been tunneling (and using p2p) long before any great firewalls or national monitoring systems have been implemented. They may be sick puppies but they (on the whole) aint as dumb as rocks.

They're gonna outlaw all encryption since encryption prevents the po-lice from seeing what you're doing. "Nothing to hide" and all that. And as for their legitimate uses? Want to shop? Go to a store. Want to bank? Go to the bank. Your grandparents did it the old fashioned way and never had to worry about identity theft. Why should you be no different?

Good to see that someone in a position to make a difference has a clue, they will continue to get my service.

... a bunch of tubes?

Surely Senator Conroy should just employ some plumbers to block up the pipes in Australia.

Then: Cracking a tube would become a criminal offence.

Yep, if a politician down here is being an authoritarian prick, (s)he's going to fucking get called on it.

Iinet stated from the beginning of this sorry story that they only wanted to participate to prove that it was a flawed idea from the outset. More power to them

iiNet wanted to participate to show how crap it was going to be. They told the govt that they wanted to run double blind trials and the govt said no. I guess it wasn't going to give Conroy the result he wanted.