Australian Internet Censorship

Tear down the great firewall

Senator Conroy thinks he can sneak his plan to censor the internet in as Australia settles in for Christmas. As he considers the future of the scheme he needs to know that we’ll be watching every step of the way.

At this crucial moment send Senator Conroy a quick message to let him know what you think of his plans to censor Australia’s internet.
Go to Getup and make your views known about internet censorship!
Senator Conroy,

I don’t want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the digital economy and miss the vast majority of unwanted content.”

At Google we are concerned by the Government’s plans to introduce a mandatory filtering regime for Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Australia, the first of its kind amongst western democracies.* Our primary concern is that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide.

Germany and Italy have mandatory ISP filtering, however in both cases they are of a clearly limited scope. In Germany, the scope is child abuse material and in Italy, it is child abuse material and unlawful gambling sites. Australia’s proposed regime would uniquely combine a mandatory framework and a much wider scope of content, the first of its kind in the democratic world.

Google’s blog

Government says yes to Internet filter, Google says no.
Senator Stephen Conroy announces plans to push ahead with controversial ISP-level Internet filtering
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