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Australia always tries these types of laws, they tried a Great Wall of China-like firewall a few years ago it didn't go anywhere. I suspect this will be the sam
by r32a_ 8y ago
Australia always tries these types of laws, they tried a Great Wall of China-like firewall a few years ago it didn't go anywhere. I suspect this will be the same.
- brandonjm 8y agoDo you mean the "ISP-only" DNS restrictions of 2016? That was just a lame attempt to appease the film and media companies. Unfortunately for Aus Gov, DNS registries are not solely operated by Australia.
- wfriesen 8y agoWhat's particularly strange to me is that devices such as Google WiFi come preconfigured to point at Google's DNS, so a layman in Australia will be bypassing these blocks without deliberately doing so.
- brandonjm 8y agoIt did have some interesting effects though. I know of several of my old school acquaintances who were very technologically challenged that managed to navigate their network settings far enough to change DNS.
- ianhowson 8y agoThe mandatory filtering proposal was rejected before hitting parliament. AABill has already been accepted.
- Joakal 8y agoRejected? Yes, but the filtering has been active for a while now. Labor gave up but got AFP to censor for child porn etc. Liberals in power extended it to copyright infringement. It's definitely a bipartisan policy for Internet censorship in Australia. Most Australians don't care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...