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Protesters Hit the Streets Over Australian Internet Censorship Proposals

By DrewWilson

Australian digital rights organizations are applauding the high turnout in a country-wide demonstration against proposed Australian internet blacklists. The Electronic Frontiers Australia recently applauded the high turnout for protests against proposed censorship laws that would block access to websites deemed by the government as "inappropriate". From the press release: ?The forthcoming protests by the Digital Liberty Coalition and the petition by GetUp! show the depth of community disagreement with the government on this issue?, said EFA spokesperson Danny Yee. The proposed censorship system would target web material that would be legal in other media. ?Australians are unhappy with existing censorship of computer games and films.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).