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I wonder why only Europe is discussed here at the moment. What about Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan? South American countries? (Myself, can only co
by goblin89 14y ago
I wonder why only Europe is discussed here at the moment. What about Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan? South American countries?
(Myself, can only comment on Russia or Ukraine. Not aware of any Internet filtering in these two.)
- andyzweb 14y agoAustralia wanted to block pictures of women with small boobs so they are out of the running
- nicholassmith 14y agoAustralia has some Internet Censorship issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...), but I don't live there so not sure how bad it is on the ground.
- mwilcox 14y agoNZ recently passed a 3-strikes anti-piracy law: http://3strikes.net.nz/ http://3strikes.net.nz/
- hga 14y agoWhen we're talking long term First World, Commonwealth etc. countries none seems to have as bad track record of Internet stewardship as Australia. It's also very expensive, they're at the extreme end of a few pipes.
- mwill 14y agoAustralian resident here, internet access is slow, overpriced (Example: $30AUDp/mo for 5GB including upload and downloads, after which you're slowed to 65kb/s until end of month), and seemingly constantly under threat of censorship or lawsuits against ISP's. Allegedly the National Broadband Network currently rolling out will help alleviate the first two, but best case scenario leaves the latter hanging over our heads.