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Sunday January 2010 01:14
On 16 December 2009, the government of Australia announced it intends to go ahead with legislation to filter the internet in Australia at an ISP level - on a compulsory basis - based on a blacklist of websites.
This is a specially written article which has grown out of a comment I made on a social networking site where I expressed my anger over this. It looked like this:
This is a specially written article which has grown out of a comment I made on a social networking site where I expressed my anger over this. It looked like this:
After a few back and forth comments, a friend of mine named Matt made this (quite genuine) comment:
“...if a filter blocks child sexual abuse etc content, I can't see how that is an infringement on our liberty.”
...and I realised I was going to have to write a more thoughtful and thorough reply. Here it is.
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