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Up to recently, we in the West have always prided ourselves on our freedom of expression and freedom to access information supplied by a free press and other media. Now governments clearly have had enough of the anarchical nature of the Net, where people can pretty well say and do whatever they like. As they can feel their power slipping away from them, politicians are looking for ways to curb that freedom and regain some of that power. What better way to start than by censoring the internet, under the guise of "we're protecting your children". Once they have a foot in the door, there will no stopping them and censorship will only increase as time goes on.

Rudd, please keep your hands off the Net. Go after the baddies by all means but don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Once you start censoring the Net, you are on a slippery slope to a totalitarian state, the antithesis of a democracy.