Comments on: Torrent Sites End Up on Aussie Blacklist

By: scaramond

scaramond — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:19:20 +0000

tk, isn’t it a bit ironic you’re calling them wankers? ;-)

By: the nutshell paragraph » Blog Archive » The changing face of Islam

the nutshell paragraph » Blog Archive » The changing face of Islam — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:11:33 +0000

[...] Australia destroys the Internet Like all efforts to censor the Internet, Australia’s scheme to put a firewall around the entire country’s web began with the claim that it’s needed to prevent sexual predators from getting at our children. Now, Australia’s secret list of banned sites has been leaked, and it includes “religious sites, various Wikipedia pages, euthanasia sites and a travel agent, a dentist’s website…” [...]

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:45:10 +0000

all the illegal sites must be stored on a server somewhere. Why don’t the cops just shut them down.

By: sumpy

sumpy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:02:16 +0000

anyone who calls anyone ‘a noob’ with feeling is a tosser who will nevar get a gf. EEEEEAAAASSSSYYYYY

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:34:31 +0000

Australia is run by wankers who can’t keep their country of in control. They resort to secret blacklist of websites to show the world of their short willies.

By: matt

matt — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:45:55 +0000

Lots of schools would block this site to stop people spending time on torrentfreak when they should be working.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:26:22 +0000

@57

up to 80%

By: Pantsonnos

Pantsonnos — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:37:57 +0000

I don’t mind the filters but i hear that there could be a 30% speed drop because of the filter :(

Internet in Aus is already overpriced but now its gonna be slowed too …

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:59:05 +0000

@46 Nubcakes

“but putting dentists and tuckshops onto the list seemed a little ludicrous and pointless even for a government hell bent on censorship”

Rather than blindly accepting Conroy’s comments (he’s a pollie FFS, of course he’s lying), why don’t you spend a few minutes checking for yourself? It would’ve been quicker for you to Google the facts than it was for you to write such claptrap.

The dentist’s site was hacked by Russian CP merchants, it was removed and he subsequently shifted his site to a more secure host.

Because he did not and could not know he was on the SECRET blacklist he had no way of having his site removed once it was OK. OK?

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/qld-dentist-furious-over-blacklist/2009/03/19/1237054974422.html

By: Tox

Tox — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:45:50 +0000

@ NubCakes

seems some users here can’t descriminate.

I believe the word you’re looking for is discriminate, smartass.

If or when you’re able to master basic English language, then maybe we’ll talk. Until then I’m not feeling too hopeful of learning much from you. :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:55:24 +0000

“Not talking about TOR, thats too small scale, but is there a project working on creating something like this for mass deployment?”

What? Are you an idiot? Tor is small because not that many people are using it. Just adopt the technology and it will grow. There is nothing keeping it small to call for something else for ‘mass deployment’.

“Mirrors utilizing pics with the names of the banned websites incorporated within, and the Censor cops would have to open-eyeball each pic to determine just where each pic leads.”

As opposed to looking at the hypertext links? LOL. I love it when technologically illiterate people say something really stupid.

“Incase you’re curious I wouldn’t visit them sites. I tried one near the top and it was pics of aborted foetuses :(.”

So? Seems like you are exactly the kind of a pussy that the nanny nation needs to ‘protect’.

By: arnieindeed

arnieindeed — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:07:33 +0000

Betfair wasn’t blocked in 2007 because of any AMCA ban. It was blocked because of interstate trading restrictions imposed by the WA STATE Goverment as a matter of protectionism, which were overuled by the High Court as a breach of interstate trade.

Not as exciting as political banning I know.

Tell your friends . . .

By: kbtkbt

kbtkbt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:46:49 +0000

Well, blocklist for school & university internet, i can understand. To cut cost in this troubling economic crisis. BUT blocklist for home internet … THAT is OVER RATED. I will go back to 56kB connection if they enforce this to homes.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:19:30 +0000

They seek to control the population by controlling what they hear. But in order to do that they must destroy the internet. Making a great fire wall of australia is a good start. Do not believe them. The supporters of this bill seek to destroy the very foundation of human rights.

Their is no need for an onhoust democratic government to censor the web and they know it.

Remember knowledge is power. Without the knowledge we wouldn’t act.

By: Now if only...

Now if only... — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:33:20 +0000

Did you forget to put your name in at 48 nubcakes???

Such a f__king loser

Its common sense that makes nobs like you look so empty headed cause you dont have any.

Cant believe you were dumb enough to think i dont know the difference between common sense etc, actually i can believe it.

Roped into that one hey simpleton.

Wrote letters to conroy….
hahahaha

By: Snoopy

Snoopy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:43:01 +0000

Australia=China.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:10:49 +0000

God “Now if only….” can you say something intelligent just once, please man just ONCE!!!

Instead of trying to be a combo of internet tough guy and intelligent sheeple. Too retardo to know the difference betwen ‘common sense’ & ‘elementary’. Go back to jerking off your Daddy so he doesn’t smash you in the head some more after he rapes yu.

By: iShare

iShare — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:36:41 +0000

Atleast they aren’t going to do what they do with government schools, and force a whitelist onto us. When I was at school there was many times where I couldn’t access sites as they appeared under the catagory “Uncatagorised,” which every site is set to by default, even though I was researching for an assignment. Atleast I could access Spurceforget.net so I downloaded Tor there, to put on my USB drive

By: NubCakes

NubCakes — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:34:33 +0000

And as surmised earlier above this is not an official list.

I’m defending this scheme whatsoever – indeed, I’ve written letters to Stephen Conroy (telco minister), Mike Rann (Premier of SA) and Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister of Australia) and attended the December protests in my state – but putting dentists and tuckshops onto the list seemed a little ludicrous and pointless even for a government hell bent on censorship.

http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/014

Now, will TF add a postscript to this article? The minister may well be telling lies regarding this being a fake of course.

By: Now if only....

Now if only.... — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:58:25 +0000

Well those organisations probably don’t wish users of their network to be reading about torrent-related subjects or using Bittorrent on their networks … seems elementary to me.

See that, thats the unintelligent comment nub cakes, seems elementary to you but to rest of us its common sense.

As far as the iinet case goes you should be able to tell us as your helping with the prosecution.

Slaves shall f__king server

2010 FTW