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They’re simply not capable of such things. The government fails to grasp technology entirely, passes technically impossible bills and destroys even the good thi

They’re simply not capable of such things. The government fails to grasp technology entirely, passes technically impossible bills and destroys even the good things it creates (ftth is now fttn). While there’s some precedents with piracy website DNS entries removed from ISP dns, I doubt the gov would want to pick a fight with a multi billion (trillion?) dollar company who would actually fight back.

hnick 6y ago
> piracy website DNS entries removed I admit I hardly visit pirate sites, but I didn't even notice that happen. I just checked and the Pirate Bay is still available so I don't know what they're even blocking.
- Bnshsysjab 6y ago
  Tpb is definitely blocked, I didn’t notice for ages but turns out I was always overriding my ISP DNS and using google dns which for some reason doesn’t block it, I’ve since moved to cloudflare who are in the same boat.
- yesenadam 6y ago
  e.g. 1337x.to, limetorrents.cc and torrentking.eu bring up an "access blocked" page. "Access to this site has been blocked by an order of the Federal Court of Australia" etc. https://thepiratebay.org https://thepiratebay.org is working fine for me today, although I'm sure that address hadn't worked for a while until very recently, and it wasn't the same sort of blocking as those above. I have a new computer. On my old one I changed to Google DNS when a lot of torrent sites were being blocked a few years ago, and suddenly they all worked again. Kind of silly saying access is blocked when changing one number on the computer unblocks them all.
  - hnick 6y ago
    Those 3 all work for me (well the 3rd one gives a Cloudflare error at https://torrentrex.com/ https://torrentrex.com/, not a DNS black hole). I am based in Sydney with my ISP's own DNS (Aussie BB).
    - Bnshsysjab 6y ago
      I think I read somewhere that smaller ISPs aren’t required to implement the restrictions, Presumably they might choose to not manage their own dns servers thus significant overhead. but I could be wrong.
buzzkillington 6y ago
>They’re simply not capable of such things. Google and Facebook are not cutting edge technologies. They are in the position of IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s, a legacy technology with huge market share being able to charge monopoly prices. A home grown alternative to google search is not beyond any university with a 100m budget.
- Bnshsysjab 6y ago
  What if I told you the government hasn’t been capable of moving away from IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAP or Microsoft yet ;)
  - buzzkillington 6y ago
    What if I told you that North Korea has their own OS?
    - Bnshsysjab 6y ago
      Id say that Australia isn’t. A dictatorship
friendlybus 6y ago
It doesn’t need to replace fb or google, only the functions it uses and provide an extensible set of tech for locals to develop solutions as needed. Still a massive undertaking but more reasonable.

hnick 6y ago

> piracy website DNS entries removed I admit I hardly visit pirate sites, but I didn't even notice that happen. I just checked and the Pirate Bay is still available so I don't know what they're even blocking.

Bnshsysjab 6y ago
Tpb is definitely blocked, I didn’t notice for ages but turns out I was always overriding my ISP DNS and using google dns which for some reason doesn’t block it, I’ve since moved to cloudflare who are in the same boat.
yesenadam 6y ago
e.g. 1337x.to, limetorrents.cc and torrentking.eu bring up an "access blocked" page. "Access to this site has been blocked by an order of the Federal Court of Australia" etc. https://thepiratebay.org https://thepiratebay.org is working fine for me today, although I'm sure that address hadn't worked for a while until very recently, and it wasn't the same sort of blocking as those above. I have a new computer. On my old one I changed to Google DNS when a lot of torrent sites were being blocked a few years ago, and suddenly they all worked again. Kind of silly saying access is blocked when changing one number on the computer unblocks them all.
- hnick 6y ago
  Those 3 all work for me (well the 3rd one gives a Cloudflare error at https://torrentrex.com/ https://torrentrex.com/, not a DNS black hole). I am based in Sydney with my ISP's own DNS (Aussie BB).
  - Bnshsysjab 6y ago
    I think I read somewhere that smaller ISPs aren’t required to implement the restrictions, Presumably they might choose to not manage their own dns servers thus significant overhead. but I could be wrong.

buzzkillington 6y ago

>They’re simply not capable of such things. Google and Facebook are not cutting edge technologies. They are in the position of IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s, a legacy technology with huge market share being able to charge monopoly prices. A home grown alternative to google search is not beyond any university with a 100m budget.

Bnshsysjab 6y ago
What if I told you the government hasn’t been capable of moving away from IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAP or Microsoft yet ;)
- buzzkillington 6y ago
  What if I told you that North Korea has their own OS?
  - Bnshsysjab 6y ago
    Id say that Australia isn’t. A dictatorship

friendlybus 6y ago

It doesn’t need to replace fb or google, only the functions it uses and provide an extensible set of tech for locals to develop solutions as needed. Still a massive undertaking but more reasonable.