National Broadband? I do wonder. It is big money and a big discussion here. Plenty of opportunities to make it a political football too.
This is the same government that couldn't even get home insulation installed without...well you know that story.
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Excursive mode on.
Haven't kept up with this too much but I seem to recall there was considerable concern that the ability to shut down certain domains and even regional access lines for content related reasons was seen to be pretentious nanny stateism at best.
Rather like Iran's 2009-20010 elections...
Heard the same or worse, here, with IV2.
The popular forum belief seems to be that 'ooooh, prettier multimedia pablum!' is another government-screws-us-all cover for crushing the ability of people to say the wrong things that might lead to controversy and/or 'public distress'.
Or sell things on EBay without paying taxes.
Most think the latter is worse.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of the mainstream (YT etc.) vidbot endorsements talk about the ultimate consequences to things like portable identities and forced security protocols that start out voluntary and creep to universal.
Why stick an RFID chip in someone's butt if you can instead make the person biometrically guilty beyond all possible doubt? Don't like him? Turn off his Internet privileges and watch him shrivel to nothing as he is starved of his social networking!
Yeah! That's the ticket!
Seems to me that this is a lot of wasted time as the best way to suppress info exchange and 'illicit' commerce is to make it unaffordable.
Before I lost everything, I was seeing that trend in the cost of Paypal's ever more rigid payment requirements and 'regulated' shipping schedules as well as rapidly fluctuating currency scaling depending, not on where you bought things from but rather where it was delivered to, from international dealers.
No longer was a good Googling skills and an awareness of specialist foreign retailers enough. You now had to have a relay system in place.
Hong Kong was still good to Australia/NZ but forget the U.S.! I could actually get someone in Kiwi to reship me for less total, airmal+surface, than direct. Even accounting for currency trades.
Now that I 'read alot' I see the former problem showing up, continually, here in States where previously free sites and particularly .pdf downloads of scientific articles are rapidly dead-link disappearing behind a firewall of 'synopsis says' P2P headers with costs in the range of 20-60 bucks per paper and up.
Like that's not going to create an online elite vs. cattle culture divide with 'university restricted' subscription access to mega expensive databases.
Ramble mode off...
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