Australian seniors ask Pirate Party for help in accessing right-to-die sites

Cory Doctorow 6:47 am Fri Apr 9, 2010

Exit International is an assisted suicide education group in Australia, whose average member is over 70 years old. The Exit International website ~~has been~~ will likely be blocked by the Great Firewall of Australia, so Exit International has turned to Australia's Pirate Party and asked for help in producing a slideshow explaining firewall circumvention for seniors. It's a pretty informative slideshow — teachers could just as readily use it for schoolkids in class in a teaching unit on getting access to legit educational materials that's mistakenly blocked by school censorware.

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