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The national broadband network is a policy to introduce a single network to upgrade the country's internet.

I was thinking yesterday - this is a vehicle for censorship.

Once it is in, the government will be able to work with a compliant government-corporation to restrict access.

Pretty much. When you think about it, they had a considerable amount of backlash when they first floated the blacklist. ISP's may not have been that easy to manipulate to add the filter due to the loss of revenue as users would abandon ship as soon as they knew they were being filtered.

Enter the NBN, the carrot dangled infront of the donkey. Promise of faster net are just out of reach but still obtainable, the donkey moves forward wanting what it doesn't currently have not knowing that once it has it, the master has all control via deliverance of sweet crunchy carrots.

Where before they had to implement filters at an ISP level which would cause speed loss, why not build an entire network with subnodes that govern a smaller set of people. Deploy your blacklist between said nodes and you have an easy to control black list distribution service layer within your network without any sign of speed decrease.

Just a thought.

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