Shoutbox

This is ridiculous. Seems like several governments are pushing pretty hard to censor the Internet in one way or another atm.

We have had this discussion going on for months here in Germany, the government wants to force ISPs to block websites on a confidential list maintained by the BKA (equiv. to the FBI, I guess). Their knock-out argument is that censoring would be the only way for them to fight child porn on foreign servers and it has been proven a lie already. Some non-profit associations have documented how they sent letters notifying the web-hosts about those sites and most of them went down several hours later.

Looks to me like the Australian government wants to go a few steps further though..

Depending on the way they want to implement it, simply switching from your ISPs DNS to, say, OpenDNS might be the only thing people have to do to circumvent those blacklists. (at least that's how our government wants to do it, via DNS redirecting to a page with a stop sign =P)