I just sent a fax (via the net, for free, see below) to my Member of Parliament. If you’re Australian and you don’t want the government to play nanny with what you can or cannot access on the net (and even if you don’t care about the censorship, mandatory filtering will certainly slow your connection speed, possibly significantly), please read, click, and act.
A decision on the Government’s internet censorship filter could be just weeks away. It’s crunch time for our campaign.
Live trials are nearly complete on the filter technology, which will allow the government of the day to add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist. This isn’t China, Saudi Arabia or Iran – we could see a mandatory filter of all internet traffic in Australia as early as this year.
The Government could yet put the internet filter where it belongs: in the bin. But that will only happen if politicians feel the heat in their home electorates.
At this crucial time, can you contact your local MP about internet censorship?
Yes – I will request a meeting
Yes – I will send a message
103,564 Australians. That’s how many of us have fought together to uphold our democratic principles!
Now let’s make sure our politicians see how passionate (and how many) we are.
Picture the scene in your local politician’s electorate office. The fax machine is running out of paper – it has a pile of messages every morning. Staffers have received dozens of meeting requests, and the telephone message-bank is full. Voters have made it clear: draconian and unaccountable internet censorship is unacceptable in Australia.
Can you make it happen before politicians return Canberra in a fortnight?
Yes – I will request a meeting
Yes – I will send a message
Our government should take Australia into a 21st century economy, and protect our children – but the proposed internet filter does neither. Rather it imposes technical hurdles for our digital economy and will miss much of the content it’s designed to block.
Since we [GetUp! Action for Australia] started this campaign in May, it has been revealed that the Government’s secret blacklist includes everything from euthanasia and abortion sites to local dentists and tuckshops. It’s easy to see how this filter would be open to abuse. Let’s drive home our campaign to make sure it doesn’t happen.
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