Ugh

[starrylizard]

Sometimes I despair at our FREE country and certain people's crusades to take those freedoms away. There are some things that a few people want to regulate because they just seem genuinely scared of them. They obviously don't use them. Why are you trying to put up a firewall like China has for crying out loud. I can't believe your suggesting that Australia should follow China's example!

Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube

For that matter, even if you hit a big company like Youtube, there's plenty of other streaming video services to choose from. You gonna hit those too? *eyebrow* Ugh.

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[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google's censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship locally.

Cannot believe he thought this was a good argument!

Blocking on the basis of keywords is so heavy-handed. I've had friends unable to look at sites about breast-feeding, for instance, because their work systems have blocked searches for "breasts". That sort of thing is just stupid.