Re: [Oz-ISP] Action over the Bill (fwd)

[Brendan Bouffler <brendan@proximity.com.au>]

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Garret Krampe wrote:

|  Subject: [Oz-ISP] Action over the Bill
|  
|  [ snip! ]
|  world. Is there any doubt that proxy filters are to be compulsory?
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|  Fourth, less censorious State and Territory laws are over-ridden, and

It's fairly obvious what will happen. As in most other situationa where
impediments have been put up, the internet will work its way around it.

A possible scenario would be thus: a service provider based in the US
where such bills have been trounced upon by the Supreme Court (thank
goodness) will offer, for a fee, a plug-through-proxy which will simply
open up a scrambled (no encryption needed even) TCP port from your browser
to their (unfiltered) webcache. Hell, it'll probably just be a plug-in
for Netscape and M$E.

It means that your naughty pics will cost a few more pennies per meg
(they won't be the 'cheap bytes' fetched from your ISP's proxy) but
it'd be worth it, if that's what you wanted.

I don't see this proposed bill as being anything other than what it is:
a completely futile attempt to control a monster that's way, way bigger
than any government who tried to mess with it.

Anybody want to write the plugin? I'll find some warehouse space in
the bay area somewhere to store all the money!

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