Great Barrier Firewall?

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Re: Great Barrier Firewall?

Post by Cartollomew » 26 Jun 2009, 14:41

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Post by midi » 26 Jun 2009, 14:42

In Britain, Senator Conroy was nominated for the annual internet villain award "for continuing to promote network-level blocking despite significant national and international opposition", George White, press officer with Britain's Internet Services Providers' Association, said.
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Post by Cartollomew » 09 Jul 2009, 16:11

"Our proposition has always been a modest one - to block child pornography," [Conroy] said.
"Oh," he followed, "that's right... also to block a bunch of other stuff. We haven't really gone into detail on that one."
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Re: Great Barrier Firewall?

Post by Cartollomew » 14 Jul 2009, 17:59

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Re: Great Barrier Firewall?

Post by Cartollomew » 23 Jul 2009, 16:09

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/150881,pi ... sting.aspx

Basically, it's a VPN tunnel. Big whoop.

Expect to see more of these though, as more countries jump on the "let's filter the internets!" bandwagon.
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Re: Great Barrier Firewall?

Post by Vella » 15 Dec 2009, 18:17

Five articles released today... The net filter is imminent.

More to be found on ZDNet.

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