ICMag.com Banned in Australia!

[cornflake]

actually my isp has run a filter for about 5 years that slows your p2p downloads

it's easy enough to bypass. yes i agree with a sentiment I read by someone else, that it's probably a good thing because it forces the use of a proxy and that is still smarter than not using a proxy *wink*

 

[itsmysubaru]

Absurd about the Aussie ban, when will they wake up?

We have gone from $22Billion in front to Announce as $42Billion dollar deficiet in a very short Labor party Time..

HOLY CRAP!! I think the Fed had $42B stuck in it's teeth this morning after eating breakfast.

 

[guest123]

recently ive been able to access the site with my normal server ,,, no proxy needed .. thank goodnes ,, a lot of those proxys are poxy ...

 

[morbo]

wow thanks for the heads up Mr duck

yup Im in without a proxy aswell ,looks like the filter idea was a fail?. But still using proxy switcher too watch south park episodes or their site

 

[Guest 26753]

recently ive been able to access the site with my normal server ,,, no proxy needed .. thank goodnes ,, a lot of those proxys are poxy ...

I too am able to know access here without a poxy proxy. i think in my case it had to do with telling my ISP (AAPT) that I would leave as they were censoring my internet access. When I rang and talked to the head office, even they were unaware the filtering was happening. One day later and things were back to normal.

 

[MEDI-EVIL]

where' there'..s a will there's away..censorship my arse..

fuck um i say



M.E

 

[Beeka]

CORNFLAKE IS FULLA SH!T

CORNFLAKE IS FULLA SH!T

Its legal to access any site you like.
I should know to My misses works in IT.

 

[morbo]

Its legal to access any site you like.
I should know to My misses works in IT.

go surfing for child porn beeka , you come off like a 16yo so you would prolly get away with it

 

[White Rabbit]

...the hallmarks of oppression of a dictatorship = censorship(excluding the obvious, already mentioned internet porn crimes although censoring as apposed to monitoring this sort of thing just make these crims more calculating). What a shame. So what happens in Oz if you get "bust" with a Jorge Cervantes indoor bible? To laugh at it would be to minimize and undermine the seriousness of this kind of oppression. The banning of any mj-site should be treated with same level of disrespect that those reflected when passing the ban, effectively casting a blanket of punishment on ordinary Australians...
Smacking to me, amongst other things, of an insecure government trying to save its own diminishing dollar pile. <<< bad management in the finance dept here is the real joke if you ask any Rabbit..

Peace
WR

 

[MEDI-EVIL]

go surfing for child porn beeka , you come off like a 16yo so you would prolly get away with it

lmao'' go on so..

 

[BENJI]

Didn't stop me getting my copy of that book.

That filtering program is only but a minor nuisance anyway. Probably good that we have to use a proxy server anyway, so they are really doing us a favour!!!!

hey mate ive always wondered WTF is a proxy server??

Banned in australia muhahahahahahahahahaha wat a joke rudd aint stopping us!!!

 

[morbo]

hiya benji

A proxy server is just like a direct conection to another computer ,You actually use another computers i.p adress for surfing or dloading ,You can switch proxy`s and be really hard to track and appear to come from any country you choose

 

[jtk707]

We should all be using proxy servers , me im at 453 stewart lane peace

 

[guest123]

i am able to access the site fine now without using a proxy ,,
im not sure what changed things , and given several folks i know had the same problem i was sure it wasnt my doing ...
anyhows in the interim period while using proxys i found them to a bit crappy , many wouldnt allow features of the site u were using to be applied and would log u out or pop on some advert just as u were trying to log in .. not to mention the slowness ..
just glad to have it working again ..

 

[messn'n'gommin']

This is "jenius!" Banning books and the net will make everyone quit smokin' weed! Why hasn't someone done this years ago? Seriously though, it is encouraging to know, in an odd way, that not every self-serving, back-biting, duplicitous politician works in Washington, D.C.

Good luck to all the brothers and sisters in Oz! Smoke'em if ya got'em!

Namaste, mess

 

[Dr Watt]

I haven't been able to get Sboo, IC, or seedbay for at least 4 weeks. I'm with Big p ond. I thought it was for site upgrade but there wasn't any web discussion about IC/Sbay/Sboo being offline for so long

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Yeah it all seems a bit suss.

Also. Lets all congratulate KRudd on trying to stimulate the chinese economy with the government cash handout bonanza!!!

 

[Brinna]

mmm. . . sounds like China. Is there any local fallout? Controlling the discourse was an effective policy in the US under Reagan and Bush I. However, it's finally falling apart here. Really sad that it's started up in OZ. But, it can't last forever.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Aussie internet-net will be drawn wider

Comms minister expands on site blacklist

By John Ozimek • Get more from this author

Posted in Law, 25th February 2009 13:48 GMT

The Australian government is already planning to block legal internet content when its "great firewall" eventually goes live. That is the fear expressed by some of the most trenchant critics of this scheme, including Senators Simon Birmingham (for the Liberal Party) and Scott Ludlam (for the Greens) following another shift in emphasis by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy in evidence to the Environment, Communications and the Arts committee on Monday.

The Australian government launched a trial of its filtering software on 11 February, in association with a number of ISPs, including Primus, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1. The focus for this trial was "illegal sites" under the Broadcasting Services Act.

Last October, in evidence to the committee (pdf), Senator Conroy was at pains to stress that only material that is currently illegal would be blocked under "mandatory filtering". Given the chance to repeat this assertion on Monday, the Senator did not do so, stating instead that although the trial was based on sites hosting illegal content, decisions on what would actually be filtered would be taken "on the basis of the trial".

A part of the problem lies in the piecemeal way in which material is censored in Australia. Policing of online material is carried out by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. A spokeswoman for ACMA addressed the committee and explained that they would seek to block "any online content that is classified RC or X18+ by the classification board—I will come to what that means in a moment—and content which is classified R18+ and not subject to a restricted access system".

In practice, that definition can include actual sex between consenting adults, as well as material that might quite legally be bought in a newsagent or adult shop. However, the focus for their blacklist remains child abuse material ACMA recently sealed an agreement with the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), giving them access to the IWF’s block list.

El Reg spoke with Senator Ludlam. He was not sure that the government had shifted the goalposts – as they had never really said where they were situated. His major concern is that although the Government are testing with a current blacklist of around 1300 websites, the fact that they are testing a much larger list seems to indicate the direction of their thinking on the issue.

He said: "The ACMA list takes in 1300 sites: the broader list extends to 10,000. But there is also talk of dynamic filtering, according to content and categories: the use of computer-driven algorithms to establish categories, rather than any human insight into what may be blocked.

"That is when under and over-blocking occurs – and our real concern is the way in which they are testing such material whilst being ambiguous as to their real objectives."

Senator Birmingham also condemned the government’s lack of clarity. He worried that a scheme that was originally positioned as being about child safety had evolved, since the election, into something much broader.

"Since the election, Senator Conroy has mixed his language between those earlier versions related to child safety and far more restrictive comments about illegal content," he said. "It is little wonder so many concerns are running rife about the Government’s intentions.

"Most recently, in Senate estimates this week, Senator Conroy again shifted his language, moving to talk about the comparable classification codes for other media and how they are interpreted in regard to the existing ACMA blacklist. This does present a possibility of capturing content that is restricted (ie – to adults) but not illegal.

"What is desperately needed in this policy area is clarity. Senator Conroy must explain precisely what it is that he intends to restrict access to. His failure to do so is the cause of most of his troubles, with many people justifiably assuming the worst.

"While I have grave misgivings about the effectiveness and value of any mandatory ISP level filtering, at a minimum he must confirm that banned content will purely be that which would be illegal for anyone to view in any medium. The internet must not burdened with censorship that is even tighter than that in other mediums. To do so would be even greater lunacy than mandatory ISP filtering is in the first place."

At least in this week’s hearings, Senator Conroy dropped his earlier attempts to tar those opposed to his plans as closet paedophiles with an interest in looking at paedophilic material. "There is a very strong case for blocking RC or ‘refuse classification’ material that includes child sexual abuse imagery, bestiality, sexual violence, detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use and/or material that advocates the doing of a terrorist act," he said.

The change in Government language was attributed by Senator Ludlam at least in part to the very public campaign drawing attention to the government’s plans and dragging the issue out into the harsh light of day. He said: "This can only be a good thing, and for this, thanks are owed to the online community, who have been quick to respond and determined in their reaction."

 

[WhoMan]

Im sure everyone knows this but "HIDE MY ASS" is an excellent place to get a proxy address. Sorry if i interupted.