..on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 03:35:19PM +1300, Peter Gorman wrote:
> It appears that the filter list contains 7000 urls and is secret:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/new_zealand_internet_filter/
If these URLs were places, other countries or even landmark objects on the
landscape that couldn't be visited, people would take to the street and demand
answers.
Just as with the U.S Homeland Security act's surveilling of digital data, it is
because people can't /imagine/ the process of capturing and opening an email,
listening in on a cellular phone call or snooping on HTTP traffic they let it
go. Conversely, if they knew their hand written letters to Aunty Betty were
being
opened by the postal service, they'd be up in arms.
The increasing sophistication and thus opacity of digital technology yields
itself well to the persistent corporate and governmental compromise of basic
civil rights, even the idea of civil rights themselves.
The vast proportion of people that depend on email and the internet don't really
know what email and the internet actually are. They don't know what a server is,
let alone ports and protocols, the basis of filters.
Without wanting to get too poetic here, it is death by a thousand cuts from a
blade honed on ignorance.
tcpdump -i wlan0 -s 0 'tcp port 25' -A | grep "a thousand cuts"
Julian
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ..on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
> >> i don't understand - what is being filtered? why? and in what form? black
> >> bars instead of images? the scoop article doesn't really say anything
> >> about this, anyone have any more details? i assume they're looking for
> >> child porn or something..
> >
> > Yep, it seems so. Though in practice citizens would be none the wiser if
> > other
> > content was also being filtered/inspected!
> >
> > http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-faq/
> >
> > (love the fact one of the ISPs is called 'Watchdog').
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >>
> >> On 12 Mar 2010, at 16:52, Julian Oliver wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > NZ has joined the likes of China, United Arab Emirates, Australia and
> >> > Iran as
> >> > countries whose leaders coerce ISPs to filter internet content:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00159.htm
> >> >
> >> > Reccommended reading for New Zealanders:
> >> >
> >> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools
> >> >
> >> > Reccommended Song O' the Day:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=monyiOsoKxg
> >> >
> >> > Beast,
> >> >
> >> > --
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