Working around government censorship


Government can't move fast enough to close all the holes
Determined people always find freedom, no matter what a government demands.

The government wants to force all local ISPs to censor what Australians can see online, putting the country on par with the likes of China and North Korea. The joke is that school kids are already using free and simple tools to bypass such restrictions.

According to the government's own research, the filtering will degrade network performance by between 20 and 75 per cent - which makes a joke of plans for a faster national network. Civil libertarians also argue that censorship is a slippery slope, a concern heightened by the fact that those supporting the filtering are already talking about expanding it to include other stuff they don't like, such as online gambling and "illegal" sites.

The proposed filtering with give a handful of right wing nutjobs the power to control what we can see online. The fact the government wants to keep the list of banned sites a secret, and has tried to censor people speaking out against the filtering plans, should be ringing alarm bells.

Any school kid will tell you that bypassing internet filtering is ridiculously easy. One simple trick is to use a free web proxy, which acts as a middle man between you and the site you want to see. You'll find a long list of free web proxies and other such sites at FreeProxy.ru.

Every time I post about people finding ways to work around government online repression, I smile. Sometimes I laugh.

The internet is humanity's last, best hope for freedom. Folk's won't give it up without a fight.

Can't stop the signal.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - December 15, 2008 at 01:10 PM  Tag


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