Currently in Australia there is a media monopoly (Rupert Murdoch & Co) and it's very easy for the government to brainwash the population.

They'll do it any cost. Guess who'll be implementing the filtering and will be in charge of what goes on the "list" – the Australian Federal Police. They will be logging user's online behavior etc apart of restricting access to sites they find a threat.

Bravo Australia you are leading the way to fascism. The lucky country – what a joke.

Good work Australia.

Will we learn from history and will we heed the advice of those who witnessed or even experienced such atrocities? It appears we will not, and by ignoring these points we damn ourselves as well as our children to lives of slave labor at best, or at worst horrific suffering and premature death.

It is my hope that millions begin to awaken from their privileged slumbers, even as a large portion of the globe starves to death for no reason other than to increase the profits of a few U.S. and British corporations. I say, if there is a 'god' or higher consciousness, may it help us all. We're in a lot of trouble.

That ego is getting pretty bruised isn't it

You lose again donkey, try dropping free off your name hahahahahaha

Say hi to satan & don't forget to do that special thing he likes.

the only things this tells me is you have a sub-high school education.

the word is "you're".

With Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in power here in Canada, I fear that we'll be seeing this here soon. That, and the new copyright law and that stupid bill that was supposed to make unlocking your GSM cell phone illegal.

Ahh government. You never cease to amaze me.

Suck that big scaly pecker…SUCK IT!

I saw almost the exect same post a wile back about adblocking, how its anti industry/commerce, when the fact is most ppl wouldnt block adds if they wherent so damn annoing, we already pay to have internet why should we have to deal with annoing flash/shock adds when doing it?

I pirat stuff, Not gonna say i dont, but fact is when i pirat stuff Its normaly because i REFUSE to buy it thanks to limmitations like EA games where i can only install the game 3-5 times b4 i get the fun of BEGGING EA to let me have "one more please" (utter bullshit!!!!!)

these copyright laws need to be revised to keep up with the times and socity, content makers can still make BANK selling their wares be it moveis, music, games/programs or whatever It is a FALICY that these companys are being killed by piracy If you make a ggood product and price it so that people can afford it IT WILL SELL, looks at sins of a solar empire, NO DRM, avalable on damn neer any torrent/ed2k site, yet its sold MILLONS of copys, infact many "pirats" have bought it same with Oblivion, hell i know ppl that HATE the game who bought it because it was DRM free and they waned to support that!!!!

It is not that one cannot have a different opinion without being paid; rather, it is that one cannot have an opinion which is clearly false, which only someone out of their mind would have – without being paid. The fact is that you clearly have no case for your position, and it would make no sense for anyone to posit such a position for so long without being paid.

By the way, discussion, or "whining" as you call it, is not fruitless, since the exchange of ideas between people is very important.

Either way it doesn’t matter, because I think that Mr Conroy should shove his filters up his arse.

Offshore VPN FTW

In fact, you have not pointed out how any of my arguments have contained any of the aforementioned logical fallacies. The fact that copyright is essentially a control on what people are allowed to think remains a fact: that it prohibits people from replicating or transferring ideas or thoughts, either in a CD, hard drive, or other media, or in one's own mind – for example, by memorizing a song and performing it, which is prohibited by copyright – which essentially goes against freedom of expression and freedom of thought.

Its always the case, morons get elected into office because they can convince other morons they are the best, but the ones who can actually make a change… cant play the political dirty games required or get eaten up by the slime already there.

Take care my Aussie pals, we know how you are feeling, we have a dumb bitch in office here as well (Beatrice Ask)..

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The government was supposed to start TRIALLING it around now, and that was WITHOUT the inclusion of internet customers!. It was supposed t be an internal trial with the participating ISPs.

Where are you getting your facts from Torrentfreak? I used to read your articles with the hope that you knew what you were talking about but with this and a few recent articles, I'm beginning to think you are just listening to hearsay.

Pick up your game.

Suckers of satans c__k each & every one of your aliases…..

hahahahahahahahahaaa

iiNet is my ISP and glad they are standing up against this madness…

Our summer school holidays started on the 9th December (private schools) and on the 19th for public schools… And we all go back to school on the 1st of February or some time around then… So this trial will take place smack bang in the middle of the school holidays.

Don't worry about the filtering at scjool – that's BEYOND FILTERING. It's absurd…

The Straw Man fallacy,
"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position"

The Questionable Cause fallacy,
"The Questionable Cause Fallacy is actually a general type of fallacy. Any causal fallacy that involves an error in a reasoning due to a failure to adequately investigate the suspected cause is a fallacy of this type"

The Appeal to Popularity fallacy,
"The basic idea is that a claim is accepted as being true simply because most people are favorably inclined towards the claim. More formally, the fact that most people have favorable emotions associated with the claim is substituted in place of actual evidence for the claim. A person falls prey to this fallacy if he accepts a claim as being true simply because most other people approve of the claim"

Biased Sample fallacy,
"This fallacy is committed when a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is biased or prejudiced in some manner"

Appeal to Ridicule fallacy,
"The Appeal to Ridicule is a fallacy in which ridicule or mockery is substituted for evidence in an "argument.""

Appeal to Common Practice fallacy,
"The basic idea behind the fallacy is that the fact that most people do X is used as "evidence" to support the action or practice. It is a fallacy because the mere fact that most people do something does not make it correct, moral, justified, or reasonable"

Poisoning The Well,
"This sort of "reasoning" involves trying to discredit what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information (be it true or false) about the person." <- "omg your a plant" ect.

And finaly, the Two Wrongs Make a Right fallacy, "
Two Wrongs Make a Right is a fallacy in which a person "justifies" an action against a person by asserting that the person would do the same thing to him/her, when the action is not necessary to prevent B from doing X to A."

Far from speaking the truth, you speak nothng but crap, over and over and over and over.

The Straw Man fallacy,
"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position"

The Questionable Cause fallacy,
"The Questionable Cause Fallacy is actually a general type of fallacy. Any causal fallacy that involves an error in a reasoning due to a failure to adequately investigate the suspected cause is a fallacy of this type"

The Appeal to Popularity fallacy,
"The basic idea is that a claim is accepted as being true simply because most people are favorably inclined towards the claim. More formally, the fact that most people have favorable emotions associated with the claim is substituted in place of actual evidence for the claim. A person falls prey to this fallacy if he accepts a claim as being true simply because most other people approve of the claim"

Biased Sample fallacy,
"This fallacy is committed when a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is biased or prejudiced in some manner"

Appeal to Ridicule fallacy,
"The Appeal to Ridicule is a fallacy in which ridicule or mockery is substituted for evidence in an "argument.""

Appeal to Common Practice fallacy,
"The basic idea behind the fallacy is that the fact that most people do X is used as "evidence" to support the action or practice. It is a fallacy because the mere fact that most people do something does not make it correct, moral, justified, or reasonable"

Poisoning The Well,
"This sort of "reasoning" involves trying to discredit what a person might later claim by presenting unfavorable information (be it true or false) about the person." <- "omg your a plant" ect.

And finaly, the Two Wrongs Make a Right fallacy, "
Two Wrongs Make a Right is a fallacy in which a person "justifies" an action against a person by asserting that the person would do the same thing to him/her, when the action is not necessary to prevent B from doing X to A. This fallacy has the following pattern of "reasoning"

Far from speaking the truth, you speak nothng but crap, over and over and over and over.

Leave the internets alone and let the users govern what they create and look at.

I don't advertise any website called "10 chan."

I don't advertise any website called "10 chan."

Remind me again how these guys got into power?

What I wanna know is.. why do advertise such a horrible website? 10 chan? Reminds me of AOL days.

that is absolutely hilarious coming from you.

Should read: "when someone is completely unburdened by a healthy social life they have all the time in the world to find ways around any online obstacle."

same thing with the internet.

The FREE LUNCH MOVEMENT to which you all belong is anti-commerce and anti-industry. the people in power across the globe are pro-commerce and pro-industry. this will be an uphill battle for you the entire way. there is no end in sight.

the hardiest of nerds will always pirate, nothing anyone can do to stop it. when someone is completely unburdened by a healthy social life they have all the time in the world to find the entertainment companies realize this, i'm sure. their plan is to make sure filestealing on a massive scale goes back to being a niche activity rather than the mainstream ascension it is currently.

i wish them all the best on that front.

No one owns the internet, and we will prove that this is out of there control.

I don't advertise any website called "10 chan." I do have a website, but it is not called "10 chan."