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Australian Government Backing Down On Censorship

Posted by kdawson on from the won't-work-won't-scale-but-besides-that dept.

Combat Wombat sends the news that the government in Australia has begun waffling on whether country-wide Internet censorship will be mandatory. "The Rudd Government has indicated that it may back away from its mandatory Internet filtering plan. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today told a Senate estimates committee that the filtering scheme could be implemented by a voluntary industry code. ... [The shadow communications minister] said he had never heard of a voluntary mandatory system. ... Senator Conroy's statement is a departure from the internet filtering policy Labor took into the October 2007 election to make it mandatory for ISPs to block offensive and illegal content." The censorship plan, which has been called "worse than Iran," was bypassed even before trials started. A minister's defection may have effectively blocked any chance of implementation.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fucking have it!

  2. Take this Australia! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nigger raping a kyke baby to death and then eating its corpse.

    First Australian-internet-filtered Post!

  3. YES by neblol · · Score: -1, Troll

    FUCK YES

  4. Re:!victory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shouldn't the title be "JEWS Backing Down On Censorship", since the Australian people obviously never asked for this, and the only people who benefit from censorship are the Jews who run our governments? (Albeit 'behind the curtain'...)