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On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy

Dan B. writes "After Australia's Conservative party (LNP) quietly posted a policy [PDF] to impose mandatory internet filtering just one day prior to the country's election, local premiere internet forum Whirlpool has gone in to overdrive with the fastest 50 page thread ever. At 8:30pm, both sides of politics were busy running media releases, with the Conservatives hastily back-pedalling on the policy, and the Government attacking it, accusing them of hypocrisy after voting down their own proposed filter 3 years prior, stating there was no proof filtering works."

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  1. Re:Backlash is a wonderful thing by ciderbrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    For example. When you see a group of 4 ladies. Your can rate them with: Would. Would. Would't. Would.

  2. Re:Why... by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've already back-pedalled on this policy faster than Tony Abbott walking into a gay bathhouse.

  3. Re:+1 Insightful by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    An accurate description of politics is indistinguishable from absurdism.

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