Sunday, December 20, 2009

AUSTRALIAN GOV’T PROPOSES TO CENSOR THE NET

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IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANGRY YET,



YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!



Asher Moses


Sydney Morning Herald
December 15, 2009
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.. INTERNET CENSORSHIP PLAN GETS THE GREEN LIGHT..
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Australia's Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-..commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

But critics, including the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, said the trial results were not surprising and the policy was still fundamentally flawed.

The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said today he would introduce legislation just before next year's elections to force ISPs to block a blacklist of "refused classification".. (RC) websites for all Australian internet users.

The blacklist... would be compiled using a public complaints mechanism, Government censors and URLs provided by international agencies...He (Conroy) said about 15 western countries had encouraged or enforced internet filtering, and there was no reason why Australians should not have similar protection...
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..At what point does internet filtering become censorship?

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