{"id":1230,"date":"2008-10-14T14:36:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2008-10-14T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:37:22","slug":"no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"No opt-out of filtered Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php\/id;1399635276\">Computerworld &#8211; No opt-out of filtered Internet<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csamuel.org\/2008\/10\/14\/no-opt-out-for-the-great-firewall-of-australia\">Chris<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>EPIC FAIL. Looks like I&#8217;m going to have to reconsider which end of the ballot paper the ALP goes at (hint, it&#8217;s now towards the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>Pay no attention to the criminals behind the curtain&#8230; we&#8217;re just going to let them do their thing and make sure it&#8217;s hard for you to see them.<\/p>\n<p>With a false positive rate (incorrectly blocking something) of 10,000\/1,000,000 (otherwise known as 1%) we&#8217;ll no doubt see things blocked that shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to my free country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computerworld &#8211; No opt-out of filtered Internet (via Chris) EPIC FAIL. Looks like I&#8217;m going to have to reconsider which end of the ballot paper the ALP goes at (hint, it&#8217;s now towards the bottom). Pay no attention to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/no-opt-out-of-filtered-internet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,62,60,61],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-censorship","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-jQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2435,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/cold-brew-coffee-experiment-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1230,"position":0},"title":"Cold Brew Coffee Experiment #1","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-01-02","format":false,"excerpt":"1\/3rd cup ground coffee (ground approximately for what I'd use in a plunger) to 1.5cups water. 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