According to a recent news report (Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end), the Federal Government plan to introduce compulsory internet censorship at the ISP may be over before its barely begun.
According to the report, such a mandatory filtering scheme will require legislation. If that is the case, then at this time, the Opposition, the Greens and independent Senator Nick Xenophon would stand against us, thus blocking the legislation from passing in the senate.
At this time however, the plan for trials of the scheme, with 6 of the smaller Australian ISPs is still going ahead.
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March 12, 2009 at 00:08
I have mixed emotions about censorship, but I think that in the long run censorship is not a good idea. It gives too much power to the censors.
March 17, 2009 at 10:52
According to this SMH article the issues are still very complex.
Perhaps we’ll see the plan changed for something else entirely. One thing to remember is that the blacklist is still around, even if the censorship plan goes away.