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Australia Ranked Fourth In Internet Freedom

Posted by timothy on from the have-you-seen-our-town's-giant-blindfold? dept.

mjwx writes "A report published by Freedom House has placed Australia in fourth in Internet Freedom, below Estonia, the United States and Germany. Freedom House highlights the lack of actual censorship in Australia pointing out that the highly unpopular proposed ISP level censorship has been shelved since the 2010 Australian election. The Freedom House report is available here."

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  1. Re:Below Germany? by Kreigaffe · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure Germany filters out anything mentioning that party that was real big in Germany a few generations back..

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  2. Re:Below Germany? by hweimer · · Score: 4, Informative

    As of now, there are two websites (Stormfront and NSDAP/AO) that are being filtered at several smaller ISPs in North Rhine-Westphalia. What you might heard of is that there is a controversial law that allows the German federal police to add alleged child pornography websites to a secret mandatory filtering list. However, this law has never been applied and will be repealed soon. In other news, most of Germany's states seem to push for web filtering of illegal gambling, but I doubt that this is going to happen in the end.

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  3. Re:Below Germany? by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Informative

    For what it's worth:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Germany
    and:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country