IT News has a report on things that iiNet will try to block from the public wifi network it is building in Canberra.

Aside from the peer to peer file sharing used to swap movies there’s a tricky to enforce list of things that will be “unlawful”.

• gaining access to any material that is pornographic, offensive or objectionable;
• engaging in any conduct that offends Federal or Territory laws and regulations;
• bullying or harassment (sexually or otherwise) of another person;
• engaging in any defamatory message – including reading and then forwarding a message of which you are not the author;
• sending or forwarding any material that is abusive, sexist, racist, pornographic, offensive or otherwise illegal; and
• engaging in activities of an illegal or fraudulent nature.

It’s almost as if they’ve never seen the internet.

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