[ExI] Aussie net filter

[Damien Broderick]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/21/2960252.htm


Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the
election but its impact on Australia is significant.

Championed by Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital
Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, the $30million+ filter is being sold by
Labor as an internet block for child pornography, bestiality and extreme
pornography with 'wide ranging support from the Australian public' and 'only
minimal opposition against'.

But after a new, lengthy investigation it transpires that virtually none of
this is true. What Australia will get from this internet filter is a
framework for censorship that doesn't stop "the worst of the worst" but will
absolutely curtail discussion on politically incorrect topics like
euthanasia, safe drug taking and graffiti while banning relatively-tame
adult content.

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