{"id":1661,"date":"2009-06-24T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2009-06-24T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T01:51:51","slug":"unwired-and-australian-government-content-filtering-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/unwired-and-australian-government-content-filtering-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwired and Australian Government Content Filtering Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got an email from Unwired asking if I’d like to voluntarily join a trial. A censorship trial. The wonderful “you can’t know what you aren’t allowed to see” form of “trust me” democracy embraced by our current government.<\/p>\n

I first used Unwired for the time it took for Telstra to recover from screwing me when I moved (and bringing the DSL connection with me). I’ve kept the device around to enable on-the-road net connection on occasion and as a backup to my DSL line.<\/p>\n

I’ll now look for an alternative backup internet solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got an email from Unwired asking if I’d like to voluntarily join a trial. A censorship trial. The wonderful “you can’t know what you aren’t allowed to see” form of “trust me” democracy embraced by our current government. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,62,161,160],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-censorship","tag-government","tag-internet","tag-unwired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-qN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1180,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/rather-appropriate-xkcd-internet-connectivity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1661,"position":0},"title":"rather appropriate xkcd (internet connectivity)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-08-25","format":false,"excerpt":"xkcd yeah, one about internet in new apartment. really feeling that at the moment... except it's a house, not apartment. 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