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Sandpitrikko
I've lived under a regime that filtered internet content previously. It starts with the 'moral and religious' objections and ends with the blocking of Skype as the national telecommunications carrier was losing too much money to the cheaper alternative. There is no possible justification for broad scale internet censorship other than further control of the media. It's North Korean in stance and a fine example of the invasive Communist tendencies of Chairman Rudd and his Politburo henchmen. Fight this with all strength. It's an abomination, an insult to netizens and another nail in the coffin of free speech and critical thinking in this most Nannafied of countries. Don't let this pseudo-scientist with his degree in chicken bone reading fool you into believing that this is to protect the innocent. This is a control issue. Wait for the alternative media to be blocked then the open source software sites followed by any other thing that is considered 'subversive'. Any democracy that has laws about sedition and then introduces internet filtering needs a walk through the hall of mirrors for a long hard look at itself.
Topic: Minister Tanner's welcome
