Australia Delays Internet Filter!
 

Thank fuck for that!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100709/...nternet_filter

We're still going to get it, no matter what everyone thinks. The gov just put this aside so they can deal with it after the election.

No chance.

Well, worst case scenario, you folks down under have another year before you become China.

With any luck, your government will come to it's senses in the meantime.

I really can't see how something as draconian as this could ever get through.

Case in point is K. Rudd. The guy was a complete numbskull and whilst it took his peers some time to realise it, they eventually did realise........................

Internets should be free...

Also, what's up with that "Do you have any porn?" question on the airport customs form? :(

Fuck Conroy, fuck Rudd, and fuck Gillard for not seeing sense and dropping it.

If it were not for the head change Labor probably would have been voted out next election solely due to the declining popularity of Rudd. Wouldn't it be ironic if the fresh face of Gillard gives the party a new lease on life, carrying them to victory at the next election... and going forward switching on that brand new net filter.

BTW one of my (legal) teen TGPs is in the leaked list of blackbanned URLs.

I think Gillard is set to win, Abbott is far to aggressive in the way he goes about things. Not a chance he will win the next election with his attitude right now. I acutally don't mind Abbott, but get the feeling that the general population thinks he's a bit of a knob.