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Great Australian Firewall: Delayed

by Jordan Yerman | December 25, 2008 at 07:14 am

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The erection of the Great Australian Firewall is on hold. The project seems doomed anyway, as it faces widespread opposition, even from the supposedly-participating ISPs that aren't really into it.

The project was meant to be underway already.

The Federal Opposition says it is not surprised the Government's mandatory internet filtering trial has been delayed.

The trial, which was meant to begin today, has been postponed until mid-January 2009 and the internet service providers (ISPs) who will participate will be announced at the same time.

(Found via Slashdot)

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Uwe Paschen

at 09:03 on December 25th, 2008

Ah, Internet Fire Wall, Now I understand, Well they may want to ask the Chinese how to to do it and they will be glad to assist their own expertise in censoring the Internet. That is the way I see it.

Jordan Yerman

at 09:08 on December 25th, 2008

It just seems a fool's errand to me... extra load on the networks, more work for ISPs, and more hacks from 9-year-olds.

Uwe Paschen

at 09:11 on December 25th, 2008

Well, it may create some new jobs then with maintenance, Software programer an off course the Power company that will have to generate more power.

Chris Desouza (not verified)

at 12:25 on December 26th, 2008

Screw free speech. Too many criminals use it as a means to defecate the degenerate vile poop on the minds of the innocents, especially the kids.

I’d rather see a kid protected from porn imagery than some 60 year old bloke who wants to vent his mental fart.

Go Rudd. You have my vote.

Rudd (I look like a child molesting priest) (not verified)

at 14:38 on December 26th, 2008

One more step towards a society where parents make other people responsible for lookng after there kids. We don't want parents to take an active part in raising their kids do we, we'll just make the government take the burden.