[AusNOG] Yay, internet censorship legislation this week too.

[Cameron Watt]

On 17/03/2015 4:25 pm, Robert Hudson wrote:
>
> On 17 March 2015 at 16:20, Nick Stallman <nick at agentpoint.com 
> <mailto:nick at agentpoint.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm hoping they are stupid enough to make the censorship mechanism
>     DNS based or similar.
>     Easiest for them to handle (fewer false positives) and oh so easy
>     to bypass.
>
>
> I'd much rather see them not introduce or pass stupid laws to start 
> with.  Unfortunately, the former seems to be the form that the current 
> government is in, thankfully so far they haven't been so successful at 
> the latter.
>
"Current government"? If you think the opposition are any different I 
don't know why.

It is looking like the opposition are going to waive data retention 
through without even the amendments they were patting themselves on the 
back for (warrants for journos data). There is no reason to think this 
will be significantly different.
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