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Australian Govt's Plan to Censor the Internet is 'Stricter than Iran'

By soulxtc

Now reportedly silencing those critical of its plan to filter the Internet of "offensive" and illegal material. I've mentioned before how the Australian govt is moving ahead with plans to have ISPs filter porn and other internet content deemed inappropriate for children despite findings that they aren't effective and reportedly degrade connection speeds by an alarming 86%. Now comes word that the office of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is trying to silence critics of the plan after one of his advisors wrote an ?intimidating? email to Mark Newton, an engineer at the ISP Internode, who criticized the plan on the Whirlpool broadband community forum by saying it would not work and could even enable child abuse. ?In your capacity as a board member of the IIA (Internet Industry Association) I would like to express my serious concern that a IIA member would be sending out this sort of message,? the email from Mr Conroy?s advisor Belinda Dennett read. ?I have also advised (IIA chief executive) Peter Coroneos of my disappointment in this sort of irresponsible behaviour.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 24, 2008 (boomark / email).