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Weekend Censorship Story

by Steve Gibson Mar 19, 2000 1:44pm CST tags: Wack News
Figured this story about net censorship going on over in Australia should interest you guys. Basically a company contracted by the Australia government is sending out letters to websites that they get complaints about. How are the websites responding? They move the hosting to a server in the US... Hey, it's more/faster stuff for the US. The land of the free...

"It's (a story) of empowerment, not censorship," said Coroneos. What Coroneos means by empowerment is that, rather than blocking offending sites -- as the Singaporean government tried to do in 1997, Australia is taking a co-regulation approach [...] the ABA's regulators only investigate a site after a member of the public has filed a complaint.

Ohhhh... so I guess that isnt censorship after all! <smirk>

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