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Yet another country (unfortunately mine) joining the bandwagon of "protecting people from themselves". While I can see some potential reasons for it, I am begin
by jurjenh 17y ago
Yet another country (unfortunately mine) joining the bandwagon of "protecting people from themselves". While I can see some potential reasons for it, I am beginning to see it very much as a sort of censorship on free speech, which I believe is a BAD THING in any modern society.
If this is here to stay, then what needs to happen is for there to be a way that each and every person can for themselves decide to bypass the filter.
Does anyone know how these filters work? Ways around them? Things that show up the effect of the filter at work? This would seem to me a first step in seeing how big brother is trying to manipulate society / protect us from ourselves...
- fendrak 17y agoBen Franklin's essential liberty/temporary safety quote comes to mind here. Sure, it's in place for noble reasons (protecting children), but what happens when "feature creep" starts to set in? "Just one more site can't hurt, can it?"...
- ErrantX 17y agoSadly it doesn't do much of a job in it's stated aims. In fact is only a lack of hard data that stops me saying it has no effect at all...
- bootload 17y agoCensorship Compliance ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censorship-Compliance-Index?OpenDocument http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censo... Anti Spam ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-Spam-Index http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-... Censorship & the Internet ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censorship-Compliance-Censorship-and-the-Internet?OpenDocument http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Censo... Anti-Money Laundering & Countering Financing of Terrorism ~ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-Money-Laundering-Index?OpenDocument http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Anti-... I can't find any technical discussion how the filtering is being done, but the above list gives you an idea of the intention. The biggest thing I don't like about this idea for Kiwis is there is no legislation written in law. Nothing to appeal, no legal framework.
- doublec 17y agoHow it works: http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-technical-faq/ http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filterin... Using something like an SSH tunnel will work around it. Or HTTPS access to websites.