In local news: For a while now, the Australian government has been trying to censor the internet. For reals. Like China. I’ve been ignoring it all, hoping it’ll go away. They plan on using an ISP level filter to block sites - an unknown list of sites on some secret blacklist - that, for all we know, could contain the pirate bay, xkcd and anything to do with unicorns.
If that wasn’t bad enough, the government also wants to control sites like Facebook so that people can’t post messages that might hurt other people’s feelings. Again: For reals. It’s like a bad dream. It reminds me of the time when Bush was voted in and Americans were considering Canada. I’m considering space.
