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In Australia the government went on this rampage of attempting to "protect" people through censorship. Perhaps a better solution would have simply been to ask M
by verelo 14y ago
In Australia the government went on this rampage of attempting to "protect" people through censorship. Perhaps a better solution would have simply been to ask Microsoft and Apple to distribute computers with a pre-loaded host file. Nice and easy to opt out, all while providing some decent protection from obvious silly sites.
- largesse 14y agoGovernments don't know enough about the internet to know what a hosts file is and I don't think we want them to.
- bdunbar 14y agoNaw. /etc/hosts can be explained to a government. But this kind of thing doesn't give your average government nearly enough power. So: not interested.
- Zuider 14y agoOr they could declare another moral panic, and start kicking down doors and arresting people for the contents of their hosts file: "Bu-bu-but I didn't visit any of those sites!" - "Yeah, right - tell it to the judge, perv".