The Great Australian Internet Blackout

[Talwyn Aureliano]

[b:odi1ui7e]The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship. Many groups and citizens of Australia, and hopefully from other freedomloving nations, are collaborating with Electronic Frontiers Australia to make sure every netizens knows why this draconian policy is unacceptable.

Let me explain the problem we face:


The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste millions of dollars and won’t make anyone safer.

1. It won’t protect children: The filter isn’t a “cyber safety” measure to stop kids seeing inappropriate content such as R and X rated websites. It is not even designed to prevent the spread of illegal material where it is most often found (chat rooms, peer-to-peer file sharing).

2. We will all pay for this ineffective solution: Under this policy, ISPs will be forced to charge more for consumer and business broadband. Several hundred thousand dollars has already been spent to test the filter – without considering high-speed services such as the National Broadband Network.

3. A dangerous precedent: Australia stand to join a small club of "special" countries which impose centralised Internet censorship such as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The secret blacklist may be limited to “Refused Classification” content for now, but what might a future Australian Governments choose to block?


Today is the launch of a nation-wide, and broader net wide demonstration – to celebrate the freedoms all Australians still enjoy! – on Australia Day, January 26th 2010. Join your fellow campaigners for a positive opportunity to inform our fellow netizens and put an end to this terrible policy.

What can I do to help, is a question asked.

You can help by going here:

http://petitions.tigweb.org/oznetcensorship

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[Argoth]

Signed it and posted in a local version of facebook. Everyone around these parts will know.

[Talwyn Aureliano]

Thanks dude!

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

[Ra'Sona Races-The-Wind]

Signed and passed on. Dissent is duty!

[Talwyn Aureliano]

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[Argoth]

Don't know if you know, but TRON is still alive:

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