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Australia borrows Arab Internet Policies on x-rated content!

Here it is flat out from Australia:

Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites.

The Australian government doesn’t take this move as against “freedom of speech”, where they state “If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.”

So anyway, There will be a potential cost involved to Australian Internet users. The previous Government regularly cited feedback from ISP’s stating that the cost of implementing a “clean feed” would be passed onto internet users, who already pay some of the highest internet access costs in the Western world for on average slow services.

My opinion? I am not sure… I am with censorship but will this censorship be a domino effect into increasing “the governance of the web”?

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