Archive for March 23rd, 2009

The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.

Testing has already begun on systems that will slow our internet by up to 87%, make it more expensive, miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and accidentally block up to 1 in 12 legitimate sites. Our children deserve better protection – and that won’t be achieved by wasting millions on this deeply flawed system.

Source: www.getup.org.au

Big Rock Graphics does not support this as a primary method to censor inappropriate material on the internet. There are many ways around this system and this method will harm the Australian consumer and is already being used to block political views. In fact just by posting this you may not see this domain again in the near future.

I plead with any Australians that happen to come across this blog entry to sign the petition below or visit the GetUp! website link posted above and sign. Not only is this censorship system draconian, anti-democratic and costly for all parties involved – it simply won’t work for what it is intended for nor stop those distributing illegal materials.