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Wolfie!

For one thing, people who wish to share information, be it videos, pics, music or other, will simply switch to darknets which are encrypted.

Services, like Napster, were shut down because they used centralized servers. Services like BitTorrent are being harrassed becuase of the traffic patterns to file name repositories (the packets are not encrypted). Darknets are serverless P2P networks that are encrypted.

So, unless they start monitoring *all* packets to determine which are encrypted (there are quadrillions of them every day), they have no way of censoring the internet.

Only obvious solution would be to blacklist and block all packets from certain parts of the world. Like the US, or EU or China, etc, ad nauseum.

Kind of makes the internet useless if all you can access is your local library.

Secondly, concerning porn, most of it is fairly normal sex…
it’s only western kids who get *squicked out* by otherwise “normal behaviour”. Kids in grass huts in native places see sex and don’t “get scars” from seeing it… but our culture fills kids heads with such fear of sex, homosexual and heretosexual, that when they do see it, they flip out.

We see guns on telly all the time, but one erect penis, even though most of us have one growing off of us, or “own one” via marriage… can’t be shown of TV, “because it’s rude”.

What if noses were “rude” for Gods sake?

No Scooby Doo sniffing out crime, Nobody would dare sneeze, and we’d all be getting around with little “nose bras”.

Our culture is up the creek, it’s stupid.

Wolfie!

People watch porn, not everyone, maybe not even most but A LOT of people do, and these aren’t ‘weirdos’ they are normal people like you me and probably even Kevin Rudd. Interest in sex and even looking at porn is normal and people prefer to do it in the privacy of their own homes without someone or something watching. So now what? they opt-out of filtering and opt-in to the scrutiny of the government or some other special interest group - ‘they don’t want filtering they must be child pornographers get em!’ The internet provides a means to access explicit content yes, and there’s a lot, why? Because people want to look and it should be their choice without scrutiny or vindication!

As for the child protection angle, yes of course we should protect children but if they are actively trying to access the content they will find a way, and so will the paedophiles. That of course brings up the technical issues but I am not well enough informed to go into them, the only thing I can put forward is that there are how many millions of sites with inappropriate material, a quick wikipedia search shows a total of 15 members of the Office Of Film and Literature Classification. I wonder how many of these people and those that will join are interested in ensuring that our liberties are protected my guess is none but I am sure there will be some family first supporters in there and your telling me that my taxes will be paying these people and to look at porn all day no less and to think Kevin had to pay to see a strip show.

Oz has such a pansy arsed government that they cant make real solutions to growing problems so they go for the fastest bandaid fix they can find.

This will cause so many more problems than it solves and will make us look like a communist country trying to control citizens to the rest of the world. Say good bye to any kind of tourism in the future.

Telling people to calm down is the exactly what the government want to do.
Australians are apathetic in nature as it is, telling people to calm down and have a wait and see attitude never works.

Governments do what they want when they want ( see road changes in sydney, epping rd from 3 lanes to 1 lane to funnel traffic into lane cove tunnel as good recent example ).

When do YOU say enough is enough, my geuss is when its too late.

On another note, here is the persons email address who is implementing this change

senator.conroy@aph.gov.au

Please state your thoughts to him DIRECTLY. Perhaps if he gets enough emails he may second think this insane law.

I feel for my friends Down Under : ( Looks like your nude beaches are next.

Only way I could see this working…. Encrypted data?

This sucks. It will never work, its a pointless exercise. People will still be able to get what they want, whether it be porn, violence or illegal downloads of movies or games. The only thing it will accomplish is to drive up the price of decent internet connections.