Comments on: DIA Announces Internet Filtering Implementation http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/ Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: elderlybloke http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-5247 elderlybloke Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:15:30 +0000 http://thomasbeagle.net/?p=241#comment-5247 Will the censor be someone like Patricia Bartlett who was rampaging around a few years ago to protect us from anything she didn't approve of. Will the censor be someone like Patricia Bartlett who was rampaging around
a few years ago to protect us from anything she didn’t approve of.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-5245 Anonymous Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:18:53 +0000 http://thomasbeagle.net/?p=241#comment-5245 http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymizer http://www.hidemyass.com/ http://www.somebody.net/ have the DIA heard of these? I guess the next category to block would have to be open proxies and anonymizer support networks. This is the thin end of the wedge. http://www.google.com/search?q=anonymizer
http://www.hidemyass.com/
http://www.somebody.net/

have the DIA heard of these?

I guess the next category to block would have to be open proxies and anonymizer support networks.

This is the thin end of the wedge.

]]> By: cnawan http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-5242 cnawan Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:22:51 +0000 http://thomasbeagle.net/?p=241#comment-5242 At best you could block a few thousand images at those locations, but it costs them virtually nothing in time or money to evade the filter (heck, they could even automate it) and would cost huge amounts of time and money to make it any better. Not to mention that a better filter means more thinking over every little bit of information passing over the internet and a slower connection, it's like a seesaw. Can we please all learn that it's very hard to count something that's growing really fast? At best you could block a few thousand images at those locations, but it costs them virtually nothing in time or money to evade the filter (heck, they could even automate it) and would cost huge amounts of time and money to make it any better. Not to mention that a better filter means more thinking over every little bit of information passing over the internet and a slower connection, it’s like a seesaw.

Can we please all learn that it’s very hard to count something that’s growing really fast?

]]> By: zcat http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-5241 zcat Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:16:54 +0000 http://thomasbeagle.net/?p=241#comment-5241 Thailand's filtering started out 'only blocking child sex abuse', but according to wikileaks the most recent 1203 new entries are all critical of the government. But that's OK, Australia has already shown how to avoid that problem. Just use the filter to block Wikileaks! Thailand’s filtering started out ‘only blocking child sex abuse’, but according to wikileaks the most recent 1203 new entries are all critical of the government.

But that’s OK, Australia has already shown how to avoid that problem. Just use the filter to block Wikileaks!

]]> By: Foobar http://thomasbeagle.net/2009/07/16/dia-announces-internet-filtering-implementation/comment-page-1/#comment-5240 Foobar Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:27:15 +0000 http://thomasbeagle.net/?p=241#comment-5240 As I said here ( http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6637 ), once the possibility is there to do more with the filter, the pressure to use it for 'more' than just blocking child-porn will grow. The list is secret, so how would we know? And what are their promises worth anyway, when the Steven Joyce blatantly lies about Internet filtering in New Zealand, just in March of this year? 'Child porn' is the ruse that gets this society to accept wide-spread government controlled censorship infrastructure. There is going to be more to come... As I said here ( http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6637 ), once the possibility is there to do more with the filter, the pressure to use it for ‘more’ than just blocking child-porn will grow.

The list is secret, so how would we know? And what are their promises worth anyway, when the Steven Joyce blatantly lies about Internet filtering in New Zealand, just in March of this year?

‘Child porn’ is the ruse that gets this society to accept wide-spread government controlled censorship infrastructure. There is going to be more to come…

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