Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson: The Courier Mail | October 29, 2008
THE Federal Government plans to make internet censorship compulsory, putting Australia in the same league as China, Iran and North Korea.
The Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter, which could ban controversial websites on such subject as euthanasia or anorexia, when it is introduced.
Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy Minister Stephen Conroy admitted the Federal Government’s $44.2 million internet censorship plan would now include two tiers – one level of mandatory filtering for all Australians and an optional level that will provide a “…
