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Bluelight and the Aussie Internet Filter – Will it affect us?

Lovegrud said:
Yeah its some pretty rubbish news, the filter is pretty easy to avoid.

The sad part is that most child pornography is downloaded via P2P and good luck to them blocking that, it is sad that the mainstream fall for this rubbish. 'child pornography' my arse.

and TrippAR your totaly preaching to the converted *tightens tinfoil hat* :p , most people on bluelight are the types of people that do the research and like doing it so of course not many of us bluelighters believe what the media tells us.
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<3 you Tripparrr but I know all this ;) as Lovegrud said probably most people on here do haha

As far as Child pornography goes, yes - it is correct that most of it is downloaded via P2P but that is not the intended target of anti-child pornography law enforcement operations. It is much more effective to target the groups releasing or creating the child pornography that makes it's way down the the public. The problem here is that those involved in the creation and distribution of child pornography are often far more aware of their crimes and take measures to conceal their online and offline identities and location.

The casual person at home who occassionally downloads child pornography from P2P often does not take any measures to hide their identity or location, because they are not targets of high value to law enforcement.

In short, as Tripparr put so well, the justifications for this filter are a great misjudgement of the internet in general or just a blatant lie. I'll go with the latter.
 
There is actually some program they use, I forget the name of it will have to ask my fed buddies. It's a P2P protocol that uses very high bit encryption and uses TOR. You can swap files on it, so the real criminals that make this stuff and traffic large amounts of illegal child images and videos won't be found by chance and packet snooping. And even getting an ISP to log all their outgoing and incoming data they can't see anything but a bunch of uncrackable gibberish.

Of course the program was not intended to distribute child porn, pretty sure it was for music and other normally torrented data (not they they would admit it) but the pedos quickly learned how to safely trade it.
 
Not directly related to Australian legislation but worthy of note nonetheless.

A new episode in French internet legislation — French ministers have passed a bill allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system. Although originally intended against pedo-pornographic websites, this bill is already outdated, as was Hadopi in its time, and instead paves the way for a global censorship of the 'French internet.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/190238/The-French-Government-Can-Now-Censor-the-Internet
 
Can't believe this is the way the world is heading. Fingers crossed we can maybe even have another dark age!
 
^ did you guys know that the British gov are pushing to block ALL porn sites by default... What's going on on this world!

I think your right Devine Moments, Dark ages all over again. I have this funny image in my head of everyone wearing early 1800s clothing (fashion always goes in a cycle)
 
Lovegrud said:
^ did you guys know that the British gov are pushing to block ALL porn sites by default... What's going on on this world!

I think your right Devine Moments, Dark ages all over again. I have this funny image in my head of everyone wearing early 1800s clothing (fashion always goes in a cycle)
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Ill be going to the brothels if it happens here then hahahaha
 
^ You can come chill out in my opium den, which will also be providing illicit, unfiltered internet access and have all a library of all the books that the government will probably ban next/already have been banned.
 
^ lol, am currently working on my legally shady book collection at the moment aswell, so much out there!

Back on topic though I haven't really heard much about the Internet filter lately but found it funny to read on geekologie (an American blog) that they think australias current Internet laws are 'draconian'
 
Mr Blonde said:
^ You can come chill out in my opium den, which will also be providing illicit, unfiltered internet access and have all a library of all the books that the government will probably ban next/already have been banned.
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Can i come too? Ill bring my pipe :P
 
^ Of course! All trusted and respected BL'ers will be allowed, there will be a secret password to get it in that will be distributed along with a map when the government finally shows all it's cards and gets rid of all pretense of freedom. :)
 
I thought I'd share with you all something I just learnt - Australia's media content classification system is now being reviewed by the Australian Law Reform Commission. Next month they will be calling for public submissions.

In a couple of weeks, I'm doing a conference paper discussing the proposed internet filter in relation to my research with people who use the internet to educate themselves about illicit drugs. It's all good timing for me as I will be in a position to make a submission to the inquiry about the potential consequences of blocking established drug websites due to their 'refused classification' (RC) content. Redefining RC or rethinking the mandatory filter proposal could be outcomes of this review.

Whether the government accepts those recommendations is another thing altogether. The minority government would need Coalition support to pass its internet filter legislation in lower and upper house, but I think that is feasible/possible, even likely, given the views of parts of the Coalition on this issue. Interesting times ahead!

The ALRC will be establishing an online forum for public discussion soon. Read their first newsletter here:
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=0ac682945224f85fa1d89d148&id=f8f1ef3e3f

And follow them here:
http://www.facebook.com/clasrev
 
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