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Re:Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Ne... by ObsoleteNerd on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:02PM (#17914279)
This video they made is absolutely hilarious, and shows just how un-hilarious and fucked up these proposed changes are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE

Re:Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Ne... by pdkl95 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:44PM (#17914676)
Speaking of The Juice Media, I recommend watching their last Rap News, "Fate of the INTERNET - Feat. Dan Bull"[1]. It does a very good job summarizing the power struggle over the internet.

    The real question’s not which one of these paths to chase;
    but whether you can pursue them all, in a balanced way,
    so that they keep each other in check with restraint
    without letting any one of them dominate.
Decentralize and federate everything, and it becomes very difficult to even propose crap like this FVEY backdoor stupidity. If the protocol de facto forces everyone to act as peers instead of relying on central points of failure, abuse of power at any one point has limited reach.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzfxmKBz2g

Re:Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Ne... by adrian_mrd on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:58PM (#17914536)
"Reasonable and Appropriate" indeed. Funny how satirical pieces like these oft act as the best ways for the general public to understand the scope of proposed changes by a government (or lobbying efforts by companies or NGOs) - see also John Oliver, Colbert, et al.
Re:Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Ne... by touristtam on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:34PM (#17919513)
I just wish for another cassetteboy video, and yearswipe.