Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much

Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by verelo on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:26AM (#5264608)

In Australia the government went on this rampage of attempting to "protect" people through censorship. Perhaps a better solution would have simply been to ask Microsoft and Apple to distribute computers with a pre-loaded host file. Nice and easy to opt out, all while providing some decent protection from obvious silly sites.

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Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by largesse on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:55AM (#5264816)

Governments don't know enough about the internet to know what a hosts file is and I don't think we want them to.

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Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by bdunbar on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:41AM (#5265122)

Naw. /etc/hosts can be explained to a government.

But this kind of thing doesn't give your average government nearly enough power. So: not interested.

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Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by Zuider on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:29PM (#5267618)

Or they could declare another moral panic, and start kicking down doors and arresting people for the contents of their hosts file: "Bu-bu-but I didn't visit any of those sites!" - "Yeah, right - tell it to the judge, perv".

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