Monday, January 5, 2009

Stop Internet Censorship now!

Guys,
The times of writing freely on this blog may be limited...
Some shocking news is coming out about the new mandatory internet censorship coming to us here Australia shortly. As you may know the only other countries which censor the internet are Dubai and China. The reasoning behind the australian filter is complicated, politicians argue its to filter out child porn - however even when government studies say it won't be effective the government is instant in pressing ahead for some reason:

.. There are serious freedom of speech and civil liberties at stake as the filter can be broadened to block out any content the government deems unacceptable (like even this blog!)


The internet filter will also be extended to torrent and bitorrent files and with enough industry pressure there is the likelyhood the filter will be later applied to stop download of music and videos in the future from peer to peer networks. It seems crazy that this can happen in a democracy and it is a warning sign for other countries.
So what can you do ?
. Please sign the petition here to stop the internet filter.

1 comments:

Pieter said...

I am vehemently opposed to this draconian attempt to censor the net. It is a waste of time and money and will end up blocking freedom more than what was intended. The claim is they want to eliminate paedophilia and child sexual abuse. They rely on people not objecting to that end to get this through our scrutiny. It is potentially dangerous because they want to keep their black list of banned sites secret. That is outrageous and worse even than the censorship itself.
They claim that the usual run of adult sites such as this one will remain untouched. Of course if it disappears we have no way of checking. The other thing is that any computer literate child can find ways of getting around the filter. So much for effectiveness.
Ironically I have never ever stumbled onto one of these evil sites by accident and I do nothing to avoid that sort of thing as such. I do not look for them either but what I mean is that it is not so easy to find sites that deal in child porn because they all act under a cloak of cooperative secrecy. They will find other ways to do their stuff. Meanwhile the net is being slowed down with god knows what else is being banned. They could ban politically unfavourable sites and we would never know. That might be fine in China but here? No thanks.

Keep the net open and free and teach people to regulate what their kiddies do on the net and what they get to see. It is their responsibility.

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