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  From: Sam Silvester <silvest@capri.net.au>
  To  : Linux Mailing List <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 17:16:14 +0930

A question on net censorship

Hi all.
    I have just been looking at
http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/freedom/censorware/ifilter.html
which is a list of words that have been passed through a seach engine
with some form of filtering program on it.
    What would happen if I tried to access one of these websites after
the filtering is put in place in Australia? Will there be a 'HTTP Error
404 Not Found' or will we get a message saying 'This site was blocked by
<name or something> as per the net censorship laws' or something like
it?
    It would be much better if we could find out that it is the
filtering software that is preventing children at school in Health and
Physical Education from looking up road deaths due to alcohol because
alcohol is on the banned list.

Sam Silvester.
--
Programming is an art form that fights back.
Sam Silvester - silvest@capri.net.au


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