[AusNOG] Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 20:59 +1000, Joseph Goldman wrote:
> This would be the logical, un-obtrusive way (in terms of implementation) 
> to take effect, however it is easily bypassed (say setting 8.8.8.8 as 
> your computers DNS), and if the ISP is further expected to help control 
> that issue.

Whether something is "easily bypassed" is close to irrelevant - this
whole schemozzle is "easily bypassed" using various VPN technologies.
"Easy" is hard to quantify. Changing DNS servers would be impossible for
a goodly part of the target population, VPN technologies for an even
larger part.

This legislation has done no more than set up the usual pointless arms
race that censoring anything always does. Those who want the information
will get it. Those who are blocked from getting it will, overwhelmingly,
be those who never wanted it anyway and aren't even trying to get it.
And the collateral damage will be all the people who are blocked from
getting perfectly legal things because ISPs and others overreach in
their attempts to obey the law.

Abso-bloody-lutely pointless.

Regards, K.

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