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

By at 6:47 am Friday, Apr 9

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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