Conroy to keep pushing mandatory ISP filters

When I go there, to a relatively remote city in
Northern Brazil, I have > 60 channels even at a moderate hotel.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:15:19 +0800, Noodnik wrote:
 When I go there, to a relatively remote city in
Northern Brazil, I have > 60 channels even at a moderate hotel.

Yes, but what are those channels showing? I'm not really interested in
root of the week, even if it a gardening program?
My last local foray into $/view Tv had me quaking in my boots about the
killer kangaroos roaming the streets (Yes it was a National geographic
program).

OTOH, I'm not going to rush out and repair the TV if it breaks down again..

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Dr Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:
son of a bitch wrote:
Don McKenzie wrote:
Aug 10, 2010 2:08 PM
Conroy to keep pushing mandatory ISP filters
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told the ICT leaders debate in
Canberra
that the Australian Labor Party, if re-elected, would continue its
implementation of the unpopular policy.
"We will bring forward the legislation once we've finished the review
[of
refused classification guidelines]," Conroy said.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/224163,conroy-to-keep-pushing-mandatory...
Cheers Don...
One hand, you'll be able to download more and faster but porn access
may
be filtered.
The other hand, you can download as much porn as you like but it won't
be any
faster than it was back in 1999
ADSL2+ wasn't around in 1999. So its already faster than it was then.
No but ADSL1 was, and 8 meg was in play, and 12 meg was possible but not
implemented.
I am on a Telstra exchange and I am limited to 1.5meg. Is it still
2010?????


Im still on 512 / totally unlimited. I cant change to anything else
faster or I face an incredibly steep price hike and ridiculous
download limits, often with uploads counted as downloads.

The fact that in 2010 (thanks to Telstra) we still have download
limits/ shaping (basically the same thing) pisses me off even more
than the relatively low speeds.
When I have a relative in an area outside of a major city in Russia
who gets 8mb (with no limit / no censorship / download as many movies
or songs as you want without hearing endless crap about "piracy") for
$20 US a month, (I wont get started on other things like water/power/
grocery costs that are a fraction of here) we here are an absolute
joke and living in a delusional fantasy land. Actually cable TV is
only $5 a month too for a minimum of 60 channels.

Yep, my Brazilian colleagues are gobsmacked when they come here on business
and stay at one of the top hotels in Perth, with *8* TV channels available.
When I go there, to a relatively remote city in Northern Brazil, I have > 60
channels even at a moderate hotel.

I stayed at a quite reasonably upscale hotel in Sydney last weekend,
they wanted $0.75 per hour for internet access in the room. There was
free wireless access in the bar, but that is hardly conducive to work.

When are Australian hotels going to wake up to the fact that almost
everywhere else in the world, free internet access from your room is
standard.