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New Zealand's internet filter goes live

Submitted by IamVoting4RonPaul on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 07:07
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"It establishes the principle that the government can choose to arbitrarily set up a new censorship scheme and choose which material to block, with no reference to existing law," the group claims.

TechLiberty says the list of what is filtered is kept secret, in direct contrast to the rest of New Zealand's censorship regime where the Chief Censor must publish decisions banning offensive material.

O'Brien says the Department is writing to all ISPs advising them that the filter is available to them and they will be brought on gradually.

"We anticipate all major ISPs will embrace this development as they have the many other filters they employ on the internet for a range of purposes.

"The Digital Child Exploitation filter provides them with the means to prevent their customers from accessing these illegal websites, inadvertently or otherwise and will assist in raising awareness of the worldwide problem of child sexual exploitation."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3434754/New...

http://www.prisonplanet.com/frightening-taste-of-internet-ce...

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I guess government schools all

Submitted by reedr3v on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 18:47.

over the world turn out bots who cannot think for themselves.

Already in the US

Submitted by HawaiianDude on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 09:08.

I know that comcast in Colorado and Missouri logs every get and post through a proxy. So they not only have a content filter in place by domain name - They also have a read on all your inbound and outbound traffic.

(i.e the https means nothing if you are on comcast because they store all the https session exchange keys. It is like a tape recorder - they can play back anything on your screen.)

I am waiting for the first "internet phone tap" by police to be used to show what the user was doing on the internet via comcast - page by page.

freedom in NZ

Submitted by Kubat on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:32.

Typical , New Zealand got its economic freedom http://www.heritage.org/index/country/NewZealand
, but looses its personal freedom.
Same thing in Europe ...

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5 stars

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 08:06.

yeah I saw this article on Alex Jones prison planet website yesterday - very disturbing -

Thanks for posting.

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sick

Submitted by dexterszyd on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 07:44.

when will it end???

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