19015941? ago

Response from the TIO

The role of the TIO The TIO is a dispute resolution service for small business and residential consumers with complaints about telecommunications services supplied or offered in Australia.

We handle complaints where the consumer is an end-user of the telecommunications service or is directly affected by the telecommunications service.

The types of complaints we handle include complaints about supply of services, faults with services, billing and debt recovery, and breach of privacy.

There are some types of complaints that the TIO does not handle, and some circumstances when the TIO can decide not to continue handling a complaint. This complaint issue Your correspondence is about Telstra blocking particular websites.

The TIO does not handle complaints about a commercial activity of a provider from section 2.10 of Terms of Reference,

Because your complaint is about this issue, we cannot continue handling your complaint and we will not be taking this matter further.

I followed up with a call, and basically they cannot help. Next stop: ACMA

19026701? ago

Same here. ACMA next

19009980? ago

Nice work anon. Ausanon on VPN

19008284? ago

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19006980? ago

Also ironically was unblocked in NZ after a short time. Not sure why Aus is enforcing it harder than the country where it happened

19011149? ago

Indeed

19005100? ago

Tor Browser

You can easily, quickly, freely go around this block by using TorBrowser at https://www.torproject.org/download/

19005888? ago

Brave and Dissenter (which is based on Brave) also have a Tor mode.

https://brave.com/

https://dissenter.com/download#download

19003473? ago

The idiots who voted away their gun rights have no free speech either...there's a shocker.

19015969? ago

we did not get a vote on it. Per wikipedia:

Prime Minister John Howard convinced the states to adopt the gun law proposals made in a report of the 1988 National Committee on Violence as the National Firearms Agreement.[39] The Australian Constitution does not give the Commonwealth power to enact gun laws. In the face of some state resistance, Howard threatened to hold a nationwide referendum to alter the Australian Constitution to give the Commonwealth constitutional power over guns.[40] The proposals included a ban on all semi-automatic rifles and all semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns, and a system of licensing and ownership controls.

19026739? ago

Woah....didn't realize. Sounds like PM Howard should be strung up.

19003079? ago

Voat works juuust fine in aust. wink wink

ahahahahaahahaha

19011139? ago

It does if you're not on Optus or Telstra.

It's actually a DNS block so if you set your DNS to openDNS it will get through.

19075901? ago

oh, ah ok. Thanks for the correction, I did not know. I'll try to check better.

19001448? ago

Good luck, guys.

19001268? ago

So, you're asking the Government to investigate itself and see if they committed any violations?!

I'll save you the wait: the answer will be "NO".

19002153? ago

I do not believe that the ISP is a government entity

19002201? ago

They all work together. The Govt protects the ISP's monopoly. Citizens pay for it all with taxdollars and fees.

19002262? ago

The ISP are supported by the monthly charges for the internet access, are they not?

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19001111? ago

Good Idea. Ill try contacting the TIO tomorrow.

19000707? ago

Why send just a complaint when you can buy Ebola, Zika virus, and much more from atcc.org ?

19000359? ago

The point is you shouldn’t need to have a VPN to access public information.

18999899? ago

You don't use VPN it's your problem.