Protest against Internet Censorship - blackening websites on Australia Day

[Tote]

Is there any support from other forum members for protesting against Senator Conroy's Censorship plans by blackening AULRO on Australia day?

http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter-protesters-set-to-fade-websites-to-black-on-australia-day/story-e6frfro0-1225821477370
The Great Australian Internet Blackout (http://www.internetblackout.com.au/)

Regards,
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[Basil135]

The blackout has my support...

The proposed filters will not achieve their intended purpose, and will result in Australia being in a VERY small minority of countries that enforces internet censorship.

:mad:

[JDNSW]

I would support this. As Basil says, the proposed filter will not have a significant effect - a blacklist of 1000 - 10,000 URLs out of over a trillion is so silly that it would be funny if it were not serious. And it is trivial to bypass the filter.

The only possible real use is for political censorship, and the care with which the government has made the announcement during Copenhagen and just before Christmas is clear evidence to support this view, as is the fact that this has been the inevitable use of any other secret censorship system throughout history.

Australia will become the first Western Democracy to introduce secret censorship of the internet covering a wide range of material.

John

[incisor]

a blackout will achieve a poofteenth of what the filter will achieve so is an utterly useless exercise i would imagine...

i suggest you invest the virtual ink in emailing your local federal member and letting them know your feelings... as it will achieve about the same result, nil nadum zilch...

sorry but short of their being blood in the streets they will not change this policy... and we all know how easy it is to motivate the australian public over censorship. no one will give a tinkers dam till it in some way affects their wallet...

[incisor]

Australia will become the first Western Democracy to introduce secret censorship of the internet covering a wide range of material.

i suggest you swap acknowledge for introduce

[Armadillo]

no one will give a tinkers dam till it in some way affects their wallet...

Unfortunately true. What a bloody apathetic mob.:mad:

[Lightweight]

Talk is cheap, lets all act and show what a disgrace this half cocked idea will do to our freedom on the net, any opportunity to halt this is a move in the right direction.

"You can be active with the activists or sleeping with the sleepers" ??

[clean32]

The blackout has my support...

The proposed filters will not achieve their intended purpose, and will result in Australia being in a VERY small minority of countries that enforces internet censorship.

:mad:

LOL yes a very small majority that just covers over 50% of the worlds population LOL

[JDNSW]

LOL yes a very small majority that just covers over 50% of the worlds population LOL

And probably a majority of countries as well - but still not a list which I, for one, would like to see Australia added to.

John