Hey Australians, get ready for even worse internet service

[jackrock]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7689964.stm

Is the Rudd government about to erect a Great Firewall of Australia - introducing a form of internet censorship that will infringe upon the freedom of computer users to browse the worldwide web?

Yes, yes they are.

[kaiser soze]

Chinaustralia?

Austrailians should boycott all corporations that donated to Rudd and or just straight out boycott all internet business.

[mikizee]

It won't happen. They are doomed to fail.

[paul jones]

strewth!

[mikizee]

crikey

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah we were talking about this last week in my International Librarianship & Information Issues class. Shit is fucked. up. We're trying to figure out the list of stop words that will be considered to be "obscenity" by the government. :rolleyes: