ONLINE POKER TO BE CENSORED?

[bennymacca]

Interesting comment, I am not going to say too much but suggest you check out some of the legislation regarding advertising online gaming sites vie the medium of television.

you are right, i just saw an ad then, and they were very careful to point out that pokerstars.net was a free play site and they made no mention at all of real money play

interesting

[Bacon]

well, they've said the list is a hoax, so maybe the poker sites will be fine.

apparently there was a dentist's website on there.

[SwedishChef]

Well, I'm not really surprised that they said it's a hoax (spot the conspiracy theorist).

But even so...do you really think that Australia as a supposedly free country is helped by having the Government decide what you can and can't view online?
Add to that the fact that they won't even tell you what is on that list.

After a brief stint of living and working in China I can tell you that being denied to such a basic website as BBC News becomes a big issue. What is next on the list...sites with questionable political content?!

Do you really think that the government is doing this for the "good of the people"? My only concern is when the general population will stop trusting their government blindly and actually start questioning authority.

The Internet Censorship List may well be a hoax this time but just the fact that there is a list and that there may (more than likely) be mandatory filtering (which we cannot opt out of) is pretty scary.
As has been stated many times in the media...this will put Australia on the same level as China, Burma and North Korea.

But that's ok...isn't it...because the government knows best, don't they?!





Bit of a rant I know...but seriously guys...this is something that must not happen.

If you have something in particular to say to the oh-so-powerful Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy then please send him an email.

senator.conroy@aph.gov.au

Good luck...

[AceLosesKing]

I highly doubt this will be happening in Australia. I've already heard the Greens and a few other pollies are knocking back the idea of internet censorship.

Apart from that, I just don't see internet censorship here. Not in Australia.

[bennymacca]

my opinion is that its a knee jerk reaction

government says "wouldn't it be good if every kid had a laptop"
people say "good idea"
gobernment announces it
someone says "what about the news story when the first kid gets caught looking at porn on his government laptop"
government says ".... Fck, we didn't think of that, lets CENSOR THE INTERNET"

its completely rediculous in my opinion

[David]

It's funny, to wonder what is a "site".
You go to pokerstars.net - that's a site.

You download the client, and play the game, that's not using the "site" at all, it's using a client, and a server. Not a website.

I wonder what will happen

[Gaz787]

Will never happen, and even if it does, it's trivially easy to circumvent, so nothing to worry about. Honestly though, at what point did someone wake up and go "Gee, China has got it right, we should totally monitor what people are exposed to, after all, everybody loves that about China."...

[BigPete33]

It won't happen (and yes, that list is not the actual list).

The ISP's currently doing the trial (I work for one of them) are really only doing it to prove it's a joke and that it won't work.

Incidentally, to get on the actual ACMA list, someone needs to have found the site in question and complained about it to begin with.

So stumbling upon some dodgy site, and then telling everyone you think should know about it so they add that site to a list, really is counter productive because you've just gone and advertised the stupid thing.

It's like tv show's that you don't like, just don't watch it you plank!

[David]

I know it's not the list, but it must be close if they are going to these lengths to find out who "leaked" it.

[rcon]

iiNet has pulled about now. Good. Less companies participating in the trial, the less cred it has. Hopefully

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/sto ... 06,00.html