A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!According to an article on Scoop Independent News New Zealand has joined the ranks of nations with really aggressive, secret internet filters operated by the government.
Apparently two NZ ISPs, Maxnet and Watchdog, have already implemented the filter and three more, Telstra Clear, Telecom and Vodafone have stated that they will be implementing it. [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve talked about Freenet here occasionally and while I think it’s easy enough to understand I still get occasional questions about just exactly what it is. That, combined with the recent fork of Freenet Classic OpenNet from the original Freenet 0.5 project has prompted me to create this video that [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads The boys at Warner are still hard at work, censoring YouTube by way of takedown orders. Instead of just looking for actual serious copyright violations, they’re proving without a doubt that the brains at Warner are clearly lost on some distant exotic Caribbean cruises or someplace else even farther away [...]

Does this sound a bit like Big Brother’s dream toy? Yeah, I thought so too. The question is “How do we pull the plug on it?”. This growing trend of allowing more surveillance, censorship and government control of our lives in the name of things that on the surface, sound like good causes is really alarming.

News on the censorship front is that the Thai government tried to shut down some 400 web sites because they have stuff on them that the government doesn’t approve of. Funny thing about that is that according to the Guardian, 344 of those sites were apparently political and social commentary types.