Political support for the great Australian internet filter seem to be floundering.
Keep the protests up. It's good to see common sense start to prevail!
"The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started."
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/02/26/1235237810486.html
I think that the Government will be happy to ditch the legislation and save face by blaming the failure on the independent member.
Let's hope so! This nanny state BS is starting to scare me.
I wonder if the Government did go ahead with the filter if they would reimberse my lifetime membership to Brazzers.com! :P
Yup that's the same article that I have seen Wolly. However, Conroy however is still pushing ahead with some B Grade ISP's here.
That said it looks like it will never see the light of day. AWESOME!!
Here here.
Now we just need to get that R18 rating for video games.
Oh and I love that badge.
Totally agree with the R rated games - long over due
The badge is awesome!
Oh, how typical. I go off on a rant about internet filtering and see what my home country does:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090722/0224075620.shtml
A private company of record industry lobbyists has won a court case against the PirateBay. The judge decided that all of the internet traffic from the Netherlands should be filtered to keep Dutch people from going to that website.
This sets a dangerous precedent in which any and all lobbyists get control over state censorship.
Wolly - I think you hit the nail on the head in that this is a very dangerous precedent.
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