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The government censor in New Zealand wants web sites to submit their material, item by item, to the censor's office for approval. Australia and the UK already
by rodgerd 11y ago
The government censor in New Zealand wants web sites to submit their material, item by item, to the censor's office for approval.
Australia and the UK already have firewalls that filter all Internet traffic which "my bad, so sorry" seem to keep "accidentally" including all sorts of sites their backing legislation doesn't justify (at least as far as anyone can tell - the Australian government list is confidential). The UK is trying to roll out laws requiring all citizens to register with the government to view R18 material.
China is just playing catch-up at this point.
- Joof 11y agoTheir 'great firewall' is incredibly sophisticated and has lead to domestic companies like Baidu filling in gaps left by foreign companies. Weirdly, I think its helped China become a bigger power.
- gohrt 11y agoIt's called protectionism and had been the cornerstone of economic power growth for centuries
- goodcjw2 11y agoChina is definitely the leader on the matter. Not a follower.
- snori74 11y agoReally? Perhaps you could enlighten those of us that live there and have not noticed this. There is a widely used block on CP sites: https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-DCEFS https://www.dia.govt.nz/Censorship-DCEFS - but that's a very different thing.
- spangry 11y agoHere's an example from Australia: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-asics-attempt-to-block-one-website-took-down-250000-20130605-2np6v.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-asics-a... Not deliberate censorship (excluding the 1200 they did intend to censor, of course). I've had many dealings with ASIC throughout my career and can assure you that most of their 'bad actions' can be ascribed to incompetence rather than malice. Not that it's much of a comfort; the outcomes of giving power to evil are roughly the same as giving power to stupid.
- aembleton 11y agoI'm in the UK. Can you give me a URL that is blocked by the national firewall?
- ommunist 11y agoAll the BBC national content is blocked, you cannot see it from outside the UK, unless you proxy through the UK IP address.
- luwh 11y agoAll the pirate sites like kickass are blocked in UK
- aembleton 11y agohttp://kattorrents.us/ http://kattorrents.us/, http://kickasstorrents.eu/ http://kickasstorrents.eu/ works for me, I'm on Plusnet. They're just ones I found by Googling for them, is there a specific URL that doesn't work? https://pirateproxy.pw/ https://pirateproxy.pw/ also works.
- ionised 11y agoNot all of them, and simply using an HTTPS connection is enough to get around much of the blocking.