Usenet/Internet Under Attack

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www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/net-censorship-plan-backlash/2008/11/11/1226318639085.html

Australia is about to get mandatory net censorship - same as china & saudi arabia. Except ours will slow internet speeds down by up to 86%, and probably block many a legit site as well.

Joy.

I wonder if this site makes it through the 'blacklist'.



We're a backwards country down here.

tzman wrote:


Want to see a little trick? Read this sentence out loud....

"Why the fcuk isn't this being c ensored! Siht! I swear to FUKICNG god!!!"

Now read the same sentance again...

"Why the fcuk ins't tihs bineg cesonerd! Siht! I saewr to FKCUNIG god!!!"

Pretty cool eh?

As long as we still get Aussie chicks, do we really care what happens to the dudes?!?

hehe Just Kidding... censorship leads to Black Market and/or organized crime, they need to think things through completely.

I am reminded of the wisdom shown in a Dilbert comic strip. It goes something like this if I remember correctly.

"You are putting your programming skills against the combined horniness of the nation's teenagers?"

Only in this case they are putting themselves up against the combined horniness of everybody's horniness. Gentlemen you can not win this fight. Horniness will find a way.

Verizon is probably the most financially censor oriented corp around. Even the most simple features on their wireless service that others provide free, Verizon charges you for. for example, I have a razor cell phone..they block the portion of the phone tools software that allows you to lift ringtones from your computer...you have to go to their site and purchase them...Other providers with the same phone provide this for free.
I can't imagine what they will do with their ISP service.

Wow, i'd forgotten about this thread. That was a cool little discussion. Here's a thought... With all the bigger/faster internet speeds/packages that isp s are offering now, isn't it strange how it's always being offered only in small select areas? For instance, i have just last month finally been "upgraded" to the 20/2Mbps deal from CharterCommunications. It took a good year to get it though, and even some of my freinds down the street had it the whole time but for some reason it wasn't available in "my area" according to Charter ...yet! lol. I'm 2 blocks away from those friends who did have it! lol

The point is, the whole thing comes down to creating an infrastructure, for the near and distant furure, whos purpose is NOT to handle an ever incresing amount of new bandwidth, but rather focus on managing the existing amount of bandwidth already in use. Supposedly there are some who predict that there is a finite amount of bandwidth that can ever be utilized by our technoligy as we know it, and that limit is almost here.

So the thing to do it seems, is to build super computers that can keep track of all the bandwidth to the electron and control it fast enough to supply small portions of the world at a time with high speeds while at the same time be able to put minut amounts of it back to the portions onf the globe it was quietly "borrowing" it from while ppl were asleep or away from their computers. Fast enough to put it back when it detects new connections comming online. Then you start to have the "slowdowns" during certain hours of the day or night. The super computers are still in the early testing phases and can't quite handle much more than the sizes of small towns and cities at unknowticable rates of speed.

That's why your friend next door migh have 60/10Mbps and you only have 10/1... The testing pool for the super computers is more less a random pattern that changes every so often. The ppl who are picked in the new patterns will be the ones who will get the newest "upgrades"(but not for free!!!), and the corps make the money from those bogus upgrades, and then the patern changes again and so on....

LOL! So what do you all think of them apples?!

p.s. i didn't bother proof reading it so it might not make sense. lol

Dumping Usenet is more about money than anything else. The bottom line is the bottom line. It's all about money and they figure not too many people will use it, so they scrap it. If they scrapped email accounts, then they would have a revolt on their hands. Most of the newer internet users don't even know about usenet because most ISP don't have them anymore. And metering is again about costs (not sure about the Australian censoring, but they also censor movies and video games). And how many people actually go over the limit (besides people here)? Most don't even come close to the monthly limits imposed.