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Internet: ignorance is the real threat #nocleanfeed

♥ Wed 17 March 2010 , Comments Off
♥ Category : Australian Politics, Censorship, Civil Rights, Free Speech ♥ Tags : auspolitics, censorship, geek, links, politics

This is a thoughtful, interesting article, which I thought was neatly summarised in this line:

A change in technology has caused a law to extend into territory it was never designed to cover.

Go read the article, it’s got a great take on the whole Australian internet censorship battle.

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