Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship

[Squirt]

When Australia censors access to the internet it will not only include adult sites and child porn sites, but they're looking at extending it to controversial sites as well. Australia will be the second country to censor the internet, the first was China. As with China, Australian internet users will not have the option to opt out of censorship.

The thing that I find disturbing is that Britain and the U.S. often do pilot television shows and product releases in Australia to do market research before releasing a product in the states or Britain. I think this could be a first step to censoring the internet in other Western countries. Your thoughts?

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[Matt 26z]

When this is put into effect, is there anything Australians can do?

Here in the US this sort of stuff goes to the Supreme Court and is shot down.

[MiamiB]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/as...ef=mpstoryview

[accessdenied]

WTF? Damn the NWO. I hope there's enough stink raised about this.
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I'm forwarding it to some of my friends in Australia, who probably don't even know about this! I hope they can get enough power behind the opposition of this. If it succeeds there, it's only a matter of time before it goes to the UK, Canada, and the US.
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[Bodhi]

This would never fly in Canada ... Our Bill of Rightswould be brought into play ... I can't imagine why Australia???:sucks:

[Maryflixxx]

It's such a ridiculous thing to try and do - even in China.

Raise your hand if you have customers in China? I certainly do - all three porn companies I've worked for had customers in China.

At the end of the day, this is a method of the Christian Right to try and control the media. I know this because it will have no effect on anything hardcore or illegal.

Illegal content is not spread through Google, for fuck's sake. And if you don't know that, you should not be able to create legislation. But, in Politics people fail up.

M.

[badboysfilms]

I guess this is the coming thing in this world, and it can happen everywhere and the majority doesn't rule it is the ones that get involved. So down under will start blocking adult, books, magazines, speech, songs, the way you look, who you talk to, etc etc... Hi Hit.....er