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Australian Web Filter To Censor Downloaded Games

Posted by timothy on from the we've-already-got-these-cool-filters-in-place dept.

Xiroth writes "The Australian Federal Communications Ministry has confirmed that they intend to use the planned filter to block the download of games that have been refused by Australia's classification authority, the OFLC. As an Electronic Frontiers Australia spokesman noted, 'This is confirmation that the scope of the mandatory censorship scheme will keep on creeping.'"

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  1. Re:Precedent by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's when you go back to the old Mom question of "If all the other countries were jumping off a bridge, would you jump too?"

    Or perhaps, "If all the other countries are following the USA into Iraq..."