Australian 'BARRED' Web Sites.

[Homosapien]

On my Facebook, an American friend gave me the link www.truth-saves.com to check out. (Very good Atheist site. Lots of good info.)

I couldn't get onto it on my computer, or my even work computer, but my friends from America were having NO problems getting onto it.

Yesterday I went to a mates house who's IP address is not Australian. His computer was OK. I then went home and tried again. NO good. Then went through a back-door website over in the US, and got onto the site no probs (don't know if that was safe to do, or not. ie: virus's, trojan's, etc - But did it anyway).

So, is it Virgin Broadband (Home) and Optus (Work) that are preventing me from checking out this awesome Atheist website (are they owned by the church like they own Sanitarium Foods), OR, the Australian Government preventing me (filtering already in place), OR, the actual site from the US that won't let Aussies get onto their site??

I don't know. All I know is, that to get onto the site, I need to change my IP address from an Aussie one, to something else, OR, go through a back-door site.

Does anyone know of other web-sites that us Aussies a barred or banned from getting onto from here? (and I DON'T mean the child porn stuff either. That, I agree should be barred/banned). But, Atheist sites talking facts and truth, common!!!!??????

[Loki]

I have no trouble going there through iinet.

[Praxis]

No problem accessing it from where I am today so I don't think it's been Conroyed yet

[wolty]

Works for me-optus


Not a problem with a kiddy filter?

[Annie]

Works okay for me too and Im on an edu.au address = Many filters and many blocked sites.

[atuanui]

It works ok for me too!
Try & use opendns if want a new dns number
http://www.opendns.com/

[Goldenmane]

No problem getting to it from here, either.

I'm none too sure about the quality of information on that site. Seems they're of the Jesus Myther type: http://www.truth-saves.com/Did_Jesus_Exist.php

The arguments (well, assertions, really) on that page are pretty fucking specious.

Gotta pick Bugalugs up from school. I'll get back to this later if anyone's interested.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Originally Posted by The Irreverent Mr Black

I would suggest using Opera browser, in low-res mode (I think they call it "Express"), as it appears to have some Interesting Properties.

(Won't elaborate here)

Is Opera Turbo the one you're after?

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Be warned it doesn't mask your IP address though (tried it using whatsmyip.com and it still finds my IP address) and if sites know how, they will get it.

Also, it is only useful in slow connections. Fast connections will probably be made worse.

[davo]

Originally Posted by atuanui

It works ok for me too!
Try & use opendns if want a new dns number
http://www.opendns.com/

No, that won't give you anything bu a temporary name that resolves to your current IP it does not give you a new IP number as routers etc across the internet need to be configured for IP address spacing, you can't just use any old IP number on the internet.