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Internet Censorship in Australia

Started by Andrew S. · 8 months ago

The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed “controversial,” as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.

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8 comments

  • Andrew S.

    8 months ago

    They might be stopping this ----> http://www.infowars.com/?p=5660
  • pauldenby73

    8 months ago

    "In December 2006, Republican Senator John McCain tabled a proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards."

    Wrong. That bill was tailored to child porn: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bi...

    It's so funny to see how easy it is for you to believe anything that Alex Jones wants you to believe.
  • Andrew S.

    8 months ago

    "McCain's proposal, called the "Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act," encourages informants to shop website owners to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who then pass the information on to the relevant police authorities.

    Comment boards for specific articles are extremely popular and also notoriously hard to moderate. Popular articles often receive comments that run into the thousands over the course of time. In many cases, individuals hostile to the writer's argument deliberately leave obscene comments and images simply to sully the reputation of the website owners. Therefore under the terms of this bill, right-wing extremists from a website like Free Republic could effectively terminate a liberal leaning website like Raw Story by the act of posting a single photograph of a naked child. This precedent could be the kiss of death for blogs as we know them and its reverberations would negatively impact the entire Internet.

    Under the banner of saving the children from sexual predators, McCain is obviously on a mission to stamp out the influence of the burgeoning blogosphere and its increasing hostility to the warmongering agenda that he fronts for."

    If you haven't noticed yet, fighting child pornography is the cover for fighting free speech on the web. Racism was the cover for fighting hemp and the moral do-gooders helped bring about prohibition as well. Don't you understand? You can't deny the fact that allowing the government the means to censor ANY content gives them the ability to censor whatever they want.

    I also don't understand what makes you think I'm easily convinced of anything. Why do you have this obsession that I'm under some kind of mind control? YOU'RE the one that keeps bringing up Alex Jones. YOU have the obsession with him, not me.
  • Andrew S.

    8 months ago

    Also, in case you didn't notice. ONLY ONE of the TEN articles on the front page right now are even from one of Alex Jones' sites. It wasn't even written by him.
  • DAISY_YANG

    8 months ago

    Free speech may not be dead in America, but it sure is on riseupRochester.org. My comments on the board that is lamenting the death of free speech are being censored for being different than that of the moderator. I'm going to submit my thoughts on this subject (and on what is clearly a sham of a website in general) to the D&C, and get their opinion...
  • Andrew S.

    8 months ago

    I guess the joke's on you.
  • Scott

    7 months ago

    Paul what is the deal about Alex Jones ? He's an informant as is Fox, CNN, and so on. So you hear what the guys saying and you and only you can make a conscience decision on what you do and don't believe as truth. In other words keep the good and toss the bad, DUH it's that simple
  • Andrew S.

    7 months ago

    Pretty much. The guy says not to trust him blindly. "Trust but verify" is what he says - which is what you should do with any information. It turns out he's pretty trustworthy.

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