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Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda

Posted by timothy on from the top-down-under dept.

New submitter aberglas writes "The conservative government's George Brandis wants to force ISPs to block sites that might infringe copyright. Brandis said he stood firmly on the side of content creators (a.k.a. Hollywood). Ban gross violators today, obscure ones tomorrow, porn sites, far left sites the day after..." From the article, too, this snippet: "The federal government is also considering implementing a "graduated response scheme" that could lead to consumers' internet accounts being temporarily suspended if they ignore notifications to stop downloading illegal content." Shades of the Copyright Alert System.

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  1. Re:Only has to succeed once... by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you folks down under don't have anything akin to our First Amendment? You could borrow our Constitution. We're not using it.

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  2. Re:Creationalist by mjwx · · Score: 4, Funny

    What have we done! We've created a monster (aka Tony Abbott). I voted the Pirate Party, myself. /Stolzy

    Yeah, they told me that if I voted for the Greens Australia would be screwed. Well I voted for the greens and look what happened.

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