ffs.......
why are yall so pissy about this?
if they cant learn from china, that the only thing they can effectively block is that which the ppl don't wanna look at. Whether it be porn, or a site that has movies, or a site centered around a 10,000 year old method of living, untill the demand is gone, the supply will NOT fail.
Isn't this against Freedom of speech, Freedom of thought and Intellectual freedom?
I just went and had a look at the banned list at wikileaks. There are no pot sites on the list that I can see. That means that this site wasn't banned at all.The list was leaked on wikileak's today, cant access it myself, anyone got a link? just wanna see if this site is on it ect
cant be posted on Aus site's, or an 11k fine/day...
you could run two browsers side by side one proxied one not, and see the difference in your search results.The list on wikileaks certainly was accurate at some point.... but you are NOT ALLOWED to even know whats on that list. So WHO KNOWS?
Im rarely paranoid, but wow, this is so unlike any Aussie folkore, its hard tto belive you guys arent dumping tons of sheep manure on the steps of some governement building just to make a point.
I guess we all are sheep now. Europe isnt much better.
Dear Mr XXX XXXXXXX
Later today Exetel will commence a short (5 day) trial of what is claimed to be a non-intrusive internet site filtering system. By 'non-intrusive' is meant something that a user will not notice in terms of any browsing or file downloading speed differences.
The reason that Exetel is doing this trial is that our belief to date is that any future mandatory internet site 'filtering' will impose significant costs on Exetel and significant slow downs on our customers. Since the current Labor Federal Government announced its intentions to impose some form of internet censorship we have looked at various ways that we could implement it (should it ever become necessary) at the lowest possible cost and with the lowest possible speed degradation. To date, our view has been that no such solution exists.
We are trialing the one possible solution that, while certainly costing an ISP a significant amount of money, claims to have almost zero/actually zero affect on a user's speeds of service. Having discussed with the vendor why this would be possible we can see it could be feasible. We will, later today, turn on this 'filter' and will make our own observations on how much, if at all, speeds are affected for our whole user base. Our confident expectation is that no Exetel customer will notice, or be subject to, any speed degradation and we also doubt that any Exetel customer will experience a 'blocked site'.
Our sole purpose in running this trial is to put ourselves in a position to deal with any future imposed content filtering system imposed by the Australian Labor party by conforming to any legal requirement without imposing seed degradation on our customers.
While we are confident that 99.999% of our customers will neither notice a speed difference once the trial starts nor will have any pages blocked please log a fault in the normal way if you do encounter any difficulty or report blocked pages here:
http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=31829
Regards
Exetel network Engineering