Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt6

Well until a law is passed requiring every letter sent through Australia post to be open and inspected for "inappropriate" content, I'll be using an illegal VPN as an act of civil disobedience.

Speeds (in my experience) range from 9MB/s to ~18MB/s. Adds up to 200ms to your latency.

So yeah, its not perfect but not totally crap either though and it is private.

And a probably majority of Oz internut users would need/want/care about this because ?

I predict that within months if not mere weeks of the filters being brought online, most user of the McWeb won't even be aware (let alone care) that there is any filtering going on, and in fact there will be a sizeable group (no doubt from the "working families" side of the tracks) who will be glad for it so that they can settle back and watch the sport on TV and feel that they have even less to worry about what little Johnny and Jessica are getting up to on the computer in the next room.

Which brings me back to my other view on all of this – that the wrong barrow is being pushed. If the precious/sacred Net has all of a sudden become so vulnerable to such "attacks" by ideological constrained governments, then isn't it going to remain vulnerable to such attacks until IT (not the government) is changed ?

regarDS