http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/good-for-you-austrailia Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:32:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/good-for-you-austrailia#post-291607 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:41:56 +0000 DefenestratedDildo 291607@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Wonderful to see.</p> <p>If the Aus government was able to increase their control--by taking it away from ISP&#39;s--over the digital infrastructure even by a small degree, it would be incredibly detrimental to citizen&#39;s privacy and freedom; much more so than most other developed nations. </p> <p>I recently noticed how simply they could monitor traffic by looking at this map: </p> <p><a href="http://submarine-cable-map-2013.telegeography.com/" rel="nofollow">http://submarine-cable-map-2013.telegeography.com/</a> </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/good-for-you-austrailia#post-287903 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:44:23 +0000 Pookah 287903@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>My goodness, so we did! Thanks for drawing it to my attention - I had no idea. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/good-for-you-austrailia#post-287359 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:04:06 +0000 Nitro 287359@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Good news, quoted from the EFF website...</p> <p>&quot;Public Fights Back</p> <p>Despite the steady march toward expanded online snooping powers for law enforcement in the name of “national security,” a hefty pile of submissions landed in Parliamentary chambers last week, reflecting strong public opposition to the proposed reforms. A total of 177 submissions, representing thousands of individuals and organizations, flowed in to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security even though the government allowed only a brief timeframe for comment.&quot;</p> <p>Online privacy worldwide is under attack from, of all places, misinformed politicians in the West, the standard bearers of Democracy for a little while now. There&#39;s a lot of hand wringing and wailing going on because while there really are serious espionage concerns from enemies, they don&#39;t all justify the immense intrusion on citizens privacy and freedoms we would normally enjoy. Austrailia&#39;s government, like the UK and America, is seeking ever broader power over what you and I read and say on the internet. </p> <p>But the citizens of Austrailia pushed back, which is encouraging for many. If you don&#39;t know, EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the above quote is located on their website at <a href="https://www.eff.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org</a> </p>