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Google, Yahoo and Others Fight the Aussie Filter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the quit-trying-to-legislate-this-crap dept.

TheFrunj writes "In the wake of an attack on Australian Government websites comes a statement from a joint group of companies banding together to oppose Senator Conroy's infamous Internet Filter. AtomicMPC has posted the statement up on their site: 'We, the Australian Library and Information Association, Google, Inspire Foundation and Yahoo! agree that Australia needs to take effective action to ensure that internet users, and particularly children, have a safe experience online.' Backed by the weight of the Inspire Foundation, Google and Yahoo, this is a good sign for the local and international community that will hopefully spark some positive reaction."

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  1. Yeah, the summary is stupid. by mahsah · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you take it out of context it would seem that way, but RTFA. Still, this is a very poor summary for that reason.

  2. Actual statement by mwsw · · Score: 5, Informative

    The actual statement can be found here: http://www.alia.org.au/internetfiltering/Core.principles.for.effective.action.for.a.safer.internet.pdf

  3. Re:What about china? by socceroos · · Score: 5, Informative

    sending Conroy back into his hole.

    I'm pretty sure Conroy's head is already so far up his hole that it can't go any further.