Speaking Out Against Australian Internet Censorship

edo-01 writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting opinion column up that details some of the opposition to the federal government's net censorship laws, most notably from the government of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales. An interesting quote from the article: 'Essentially, [the federal government] does not see that the Internet in Australia has much of a future as a forum for adults.'"

Comments

JonKatz is the culprit

[mESSDan]

It looks like the Australians have been reading JonKatz. The ones who are speaking out read some, took a positive message out of his extremely wordy articles, and took it to the government and said "This is what we want!"

The sad part is that someone in the Aussie government probably read a JonKatz article also, but they couldn't shake the often silly messages he tries to portray as being serious, so they thought "Hey, maybe if we censor the whole net, we'll get this guy too."

Another attempt at humor by myself. Probably a troll though. Who knows.

Hot air and flatulence

[Anonymous Coward]

Within this community, any attempt to limit the availability of information, for better or worse, is patently futile.

But I think we should applaud any attempt to truncate free speech/thought/innovation/booty, rather than deride the obvious stupidity of the effort.

The result of trying to turn the internet into a .au WAN down under will inevitably lead to an appreciable brain drain. As a Conservative American, I appreciate other countries that willfully drive their intellectual citizens abroad and to our borders. Our economy thrives off of their effort and ingenuity.

In the spirit of my best wishes towards your nerds, dweebs, scientists and people with an overactive IQ, might I suggest that perhaps AU stop the pussy footing around and inact a socialist Christian hegemony with 16 foot barbed wire fences to keep the pornographic evildoers out? It tends to ensure that the fine illegal immigrants that we get are both athletic and intellectually quick on their feet. (It saves us no end of government oversight and management.)

Best wishes to your insane endeavors. And yes, the rest of the free world is laughing their collective asses off at you, not with you.
Cheers!