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- wrayal, on 12/31/2008, -25/+61Buried for MrBabyMan
- Jazzzzz, on 12/30/2008, -3/+31More and more "free" countries will try to censor the Internet, it gives the common folk too much power.
- inactive, on 12/30/2008, -4/+27You guys need to move to America. Comcast will treat you right.
/s? - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -3/+17It's a different article you *****.
- MinibossMike, on 12/31/2008, -0/+13It's called internet 2. And it coming to america also. Do not accept it.
- Bloake, on 12/31/2008, -0/+13The fact that there's a Ministry of Censorship is scary!
- FasterGun, on 12/31/2008, -0/+10/s.
Although Comcast is nothing compared to the ***** Australia's in. - shrewduser, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9vote the bastards right back out, sure fire way to show how serious you are about civil liberties and your rights.
F*** changing the governments mind, this government has demonstrated it is out of step with the Australian people. - moocow1452, on 12/31/2008, -3/+10Like =/= Original - It's the same topic, yes. But it's not the same exact source of information, nor is it copypasta. Not to mention, the previous article has already one it's course and got 1000+ Diggs. If he wants to put up another source of information, one that hasn't seen the light of day on Digg, fine by me.
- SniperZero, on 12/31/2008, -2/+9LOL wholy ***** looks like theres gonna be a ***** war coming up.
WW3 war of the internet.
Hell ***** yeah I got my pro coding skillz ready. - JamesBondJr, on 12/30/2008, -3/+9next step: censorship like China
- clintmaher, on 04/21/2009, -4/+10I have a feeling we are a testing ground for the rest of the 'free' world. Maybe Bush got this ball rolling with Johnny Howard before he left office.
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -2/+8When you give a whole continent to convicts, you need to carefully monitor them. That is the main aim of this firewall.
God save the Queen. - Dou6, on 12/31/2008, -0/+5First they handed in their guns, now they hand over their rights.
- ashthecarcrash, on 12/31/2008, -0/+5Yeah, Australia seems more and more conservative.
Like that poor guy charged for looking at Simpsons porn. Apparently cartoons have rights too. - j.carcinogen, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4Thats what happens when you let Big Brother regulate the internet, even if you get duped at first by them calling it something nice like 'Net Neutrality' or 'protecting the youth from porn'.
- AriaStar, on 12/31/2008, -6/+10Here's the original submission by someone else:
http://digg.com/security/Uproar_in_Australia_Over_ ... - SniperZero, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4"Such games include online virtual world Second Life among many." I loled... Telstra australia largest ISP has areas in second life for australian members haha.
source: http://my.bigpond.com/pond/secondlife/?cid=BP-HP-N ... - IrvineKinneas50, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4The people burying the story because of the submitter should try getting out of the house and breathing some fresh air every once in a while. Christ you guys are pathetic. There are more important things in life to get worked up about than the name of somebody who submits a story to a website.
- darkism, on 12/31/2008, -2/+6It's a different article, for *****'s sake.
http://digg.com/security/Australia_s_Firewall_What ... - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3I used to want to visit Australia. If this goes through I probably never will. Ironically, it would make me feel "dirty".
- dinuguan, on 12/31/2008, -8/+11bury the baby
- elementop, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Coincidence? I think not...
- bryson430, on 12/31/2008, -15/+18Dugg. Then spotted Mr Babyman. Undugg. Buried.
Must look at submitter first.... - nick111, on 01/01/2009, -0/+3Minor problem with that one dear boy: the opposition are worse.
As Frank Zappa said, "What I tell kids and what I've been telling kids for quite some time is first, register to vote, and second as soon as you're old enough, run for something." - Hetman, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3That sux. I hope that Austrialia is able to overturn this some how.
- chaos7, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3the importance of this issue is greater than not liking mrbabyman
- ThatsNotPudding, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Coming soon to every country, because Terrorist Pedophiles are everywhere. Won't anyone think of the fat, lazy, stupid, selfish Precious Snowflakes???!??!?!
- SleepParalysis, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Sucks, you aussies need to do some protesting, rioting and *****.
- EvilFerret, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2From wiki: "Presently, Comcast serves a total of 24.6 million cable customers, 16.3 million digital cable customers, 14.4 million high-speed internet customers, and 5.6 million voice customers.". In comparison to "Midcontinent does business in more than 200 communities and serves a total of more than 200,000 customers. "
- yellowfish04, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2how big is Comcast anyway? I always hear people talking about it, but living in North Dakota I don't know anyone personally who uses it. We use Midcontinent Comm. up here in the tundra.
- Protonz, on 12/31/2008, -1/+3Would be interesting to see if they tried to block those sites for 'defamation of character'.
- emkaysmith, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2What the f**k is the matter with you? "social norms" = tyranny by the majority. And censorship -- of ANYTHING by ANYBODY -- is always a terrible idea. And counterproductive besides. If there's a way to use technology to censor information, there's a way to use technology to get around it, and people will find it.
- SammyJr, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Get Comcast Business...they will treat you right. No /s intended. Buy the cheap ***** residential service and get what you pay for.
- choy, on 01/01/2009, -0/+1erm that's gonna take 4 years dude, they just got into power.... we need something just a *little* sooner
- Mercedes383, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Still come and visit. Aussie really is a good place to spend a bit of time in, despite the efforts of the Govt.
- Testies, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Not surprising, coming from the government that enacted "White Australia Policy" up to the early 1970's. Not a very open-minded bunch.
Hey, that's a price you pay living in the paradise, right? (looks outside at 20deg. temperature here in Canada) - Travelsonic, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1As you wish.
- Mercedes383, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1What really hurt John Howard was his implementation of massive industrial relations law changes that were very poorly received by the majority of the public. He failed to mention that he was going to do this during that last election cycle before the changes. He knew is was going to be very unpopular and he got his arse handed to him for his troubles.
He had been embroiled and caught lying in a series of scandals over the years leading up to the last election, plus going to war on the behest of George despite very strong public opinion to the contrary didn't do him any good. Especially when it was later made public that the evidence was bogus.
They kept crapping on about how well the economy has performed under them, but in reality we have been riding on the back of an Indian/Chinese resource boom. People started waking up to the fact that under Howard we have been subjected to successive interest rate hikes for over a decade, because of their failure to address the inflation problem.
I'm actually a Liberal Party supporter so my interests is to play down the failures of the Howard Govt, but in reality they really ***** it for themselves since the the last term. - seanof, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1I a way it's better to be strait forward about what it is then giving it some double speck name.
- AriaStar, on 12/31/2008, -4/+5Here's the original submission by someone other than MrBabyMan:
http://digg.com/security/Uproar_in_Australia_Over_ ... - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Only in Australia
- Culyt, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Actually that didn't really need the /s tag, even with the download caps and bittorrent throttling, you will still have a bigger cap and probably greater speed and cheaper price than you would get with an Australian ISP.
Most plans are around 20-40gb a month, mine is $80 for 200gb but its divided into 60gb peak and 140 offpeak (4am-9am). Off-peak for me is almost impossible to use, unless your a very dedicated pirate, this is also the biggest plan you can realistically get.
The speed might be faster here (ADSL2+ theoretical maximum is 28mbit) but thats not the speeds I see on normal torrents which generally max out to 50-80kbps (This is different on private ratio trackers which can get as high as 900kbps but rarely and then requiring you to seed for ages, although uploads are not counted towards the cap). Although currently I am getting a public eztv ep at 200kbps so it might just be that I'm downloading random older less seeded stuff but I'm out of normal crap. In the end I might be able to download a Linux ISO or video game patch fairly fast but for the core of the stuff I need quickly, I'm stuck with slower speeds.
The other massive problem is latency, google.com give me 400ms response time (maybe 250 if I wasn't running bittorrent). That means every website loads that little bit longer and then there is gaming.
☢ - Ne007, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Somebody needs their feet dipped in concrete and then proceed to take a swim with the fishes.
- floorman56, on 01/01/2009, -0/+1We went to war with him, because of his appeals to us
What has that got to do with internet blocking?
My wife appeals to me but i don't do everything she thinks should be done
Also where is this happening in the U.S? its not - SleepParalysis, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Is Comcast still throttling bittorrent?
They recently upgraded their basic high-speed internet to 16 Mb/s and I had a few torrents running and it actually capped out at 2 MB/s download which should be about right.
One torrent was at 1.4 MB/s consistently. Upload speeds right now are around 400 kb/s steady. I did nearly reach the 250 GB cap last month but I am fairly happy with Comcast right now. - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Good luck, my Australian pards! I hope you may roust out this censorship crap. If I could do anything to help you, I would.
- Astark, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1That's not a firewall... THIS is a firewall!
- Mercedes383, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1We went to war with him, because of his appeals to us.
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