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Don't worry, our government is incompetent enough that the kids will easily find a way around this ban.
When I first moved here the kids were using the ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) traffic cams to communicate. They would make a poster and stand in front of the camera for 15 minutes. The camera took a snapshot once every 15 minutes and posted it online. Another group that didn't have phones used the video game Animal Jam to talk to each other.
The Australian government's ban on piracy/"""copyright infringement""" was to half ass a filter they hand to ISPs that's very infrequently updated.
So when thepiratebay or eztv or whatever moves to a new domain, it's available for several months. I have friends who don't use VPNs and get around the "block" by going on Google and searching "nyaa proxy" and one of the redirects on the page would work.
Oh, and if you swap your DNS to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4, you can indefinitely bypass any Australian government censor.
I always find it interesting when the (your) comment gets more up-votes than the (my) post.
In this case it could be an in-group/out-group (instance) thing I've noticed. Sometimes people use home instance sometimes as a pre-vetting for 'comment probably safe to upvote' but scrutinise other instances' comments a bit more cautiously. I can't really say 'don't take it personally' because as the person on the receiving end it can definitely feel bad
Not to worry, between the trolls, bots, and my Ex I don't take anything personally.
Yeah, doesn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to it sometimes. Though jokes about government incompetence usually go over really well here, so that's probably why in this case.
The incompetence seems to come in waves of four years at a time.