[AusNOG] Conroy announcement on filtering

[Julian De Marchi]

Sam Silvester wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Ben Grubb <ben at techwiredau.com> wrote:
>> "The claims that the Australian government *OF TODAY* plans to implement a censorship
>> regime similar to China or Iran are baseless," Conroy told AFP.
> 
> Fixed that for ya.
> 
> This is what irritates me about the whole filter. There is absolutely
> nothing to prevent "scope creep" once the infrastructure is in place.
> Even if I did believe the Government right now, I can't say I'll trust
> the Governments elected over the next 10 years...

You'd like this article then;

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/16/1653218/UK-Government-Seeks-New-Web-Censorship-Powers

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