Andy Burnham told Britain's The Daily Telegraph newspaper the government was planning to negotiate with the administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to draw up new international rules for English language websites.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24848641-23109,00.html


We are currently fighting this battle in Australia at the moment. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I believe we (Australia) are probably the guinea pigs in a larger picture.

Our Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, is being completely belligerent and powering forth with the idea, despite the resistance from industry, professionals and the general population.

Their own tests have proven it will slow users internet connection speeds by a whopping 87%. It is set to block every site that wouldn't receive classification to air on Australian tv. And anybody who knows anything about Australian TV, we can barely have any sex or nudity on our air waves. The funny things is, the ACMA classifications are supposed to be advisories for parents to let them make informed decisions of what their kids can and can't watch. Now anything that surpasses the 15+ standard will be considered "illegal"..... So thats all porn, sites like totse, BitTorrent sites and millions more.

They just recently announced they will also be trialing a technology in order to attempt to filter P2P.

One of the biggest discussions on the net about the internet filtering and the "live trials" in Australia that are supposed to take place in January can be found here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/?action=threads_search&q=ISP+Level&f=100

could never happen

I would consider this a blow to net neutrality.

Even if it was unobtrusive, it's tough to categorize websites with user-created content, especially forums. It's just too unpredictable.

This is just a way for somebody to gain control over the internet. The only way to do this is to have every website be linked through a main one. Like running your page through myspace or some shit. It wont happen. Well it might, majority of people out there are more then willing to give there freedoms away. But its up to the minority to protect those retarded fucks I guess.

the internet was invented for porn distribution, thank you very much... this is never going to happen

I fucking hate the government of this country so, so much. Is it too much to ask that they just let people make up their own minds about shit?

Is there an easy fix if this gets put into action? Like an RPG into a certain building?

See, what you do then is the same thing with the vending machines in Japan. All computers will have little cameras to determine your age. Hold up a picture of an 87 year old man name Chet, and bingo, you get access to all the porn you want. Even Child Porn (which will be legal soon....somehow)

Fixing it will have less to do with RPGs and more to do with proxys in net-neutral countries.

It has long been my hypothesis that my generation (born in the 80s through early 90s) will be the last to have experienced a truely free internet. Already, the internet is part of society. But in the "dark ages" (to some; to others they were the "golden ages"), the internet was fringe and unregulated. A true cyber-version of the wild west. The only rule was that there was none. Slowly governments got involved. Some of it was good--the FBI rounding up child porn rings, for example. But, starting with the shutdown of Napster, the internet became more and more regulated. And I think it's only downhill from here, unless some great miracle allows the major nations to sign net neutrality and "e-freedom" into law.

Fixing it will have less to do with RPGs and more to do with proxys in net-neutral countries.

It has long been my hypothesis that my generation (born in the 80s through early 90s) will be the last to have experienced a truely free internet. Already, the internet is part of society. But in the "dark ages" (to some; to others they were the "golden ages"), the internet was fringe and unregulated. A true cyber-version of the wild west. The only rule was that there was none. Slowly governments got involved. Some of it was good--the FBI rounding up child porn rings, for example. But, starting with the shutdown of Napster, the internet became more and more regulated. And I think it's only downhill from here, unless some great miracle allows the major nations to sign net neutrality and "e-freedom" into law.

Governments of major countries giving their citizens MORE freedom? That would be a first.

Yes, like I said. It would take a Great Miracle.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24848641-23109,00.html


We are currently fighting this battle in Australia at the moment. At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I believe we (Australia) are probably the guinea pigs in a larger picture.

Our Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, is being completely belligerent and powering forth with the idea, despite the resistance from industry, professionals and the general population.

Their own tests have proven it will slow users internet connection speeds by a whopping 87%. It is set to block every site that wouldn't receive classification to air on Australian tv. And anybody who knows anything about Australian TV, we can barely have any sex or nudity on our air waves. The funny things is, the ACMA classifications are supposed to be advisories for parents to let them make informed decisions of what their kids can and can't watch. Now anything that surpasses the 15+ standard will be considered "illegal"..... So thats all porn, sites like totse, BitTorrent sites and millions more.

They just recently announced they will also be trialing a technology in order to attempt to filter P2P.

One of the biggest discussions on the net about the internet filtering and the "live trials" in Australia that are supposed to take place in January can be found here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/?action=threads_search&q=ISP+Level&f=100

lol, enjoy companies directly influencing government to take away your rights.

That's textbook fascism, if you didn't notice.