[AusNOG] Internet Censorship "scuttled" article

[Mark Newton]

On 27/02/2009, at 11:44 AM, Darren Moss wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Did you see this article in the news today?
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/web-censorship-plan-heads-towards-a-dead-end/2009/02/26/1235237810486.html
>
> Interesting read.

I got a less-strongly-worded but similar indication out of Sen.
Xenophon in January:

http://users.on.net/~newton/xenophon-2009-01--09.pdf

(in response to this letter:
http://users.on.net/~newton/xenophon-2008-10-26.pdf )

As I said yesterday, as long as this remains Government policy
the pressure needs to remain.  It isn't dead until it's lying in the
dirt with a spear sticking out of its eye socket.

> How was this ever going to work?

Ask Bernadette McMenamin :-)

   - mark


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