Friday, April 30, 2010



Australian Leftist government retreats on web filter legislation

A "temporary" retreat that will probably become permanent:
"Kevin Rudd has put another election promise on the backburner with his controversial internet filtering legislation set to be shelved until after the next election. A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month's or the June sittings of parliament.

With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are unlikely to be passed before the election.

Labor promised before the last election it would force internet service providers to block access to illegal content such as child pornography and X-rated images.

But the US government, Google and free speech advocates have said any efforts to censor the internet would slow download speeds, stop the free flow of information and be ineffective.

SOURCE

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They never stop trying, do they.

Robert said...

As Rush said, it's one of the tactics of dictators. If their idea is defeated once, twice, multiple times, they will just keep coming back with it again, and again, and again, until they get their way.