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From boingboing, from Cory Doctorow:

Electronic Frontiers Australia have posted their authoritative condemnation of the Australian government’s plan to impose mandatory, national filtering on the Australian Internet (like the filters used in Iran, Syria, China, and other repressive regimes). EFA points out that this national censorship plan will do little to curb child pornography and crime (because people who seek out that sort of thing can always get around filters), but it will give unaccountable government bureaucrats the power to secretly and arbitrarily hide information from Australians.

To me, the scary part of this article is ‘secretly and arbitrarily hide information’. Isn’t it possible to apply this here too? How would we even know that the information was being filtered and hidden? After all, we’ve pretty much demonstrated our ability as a culture to turn a blind eye to even the most heinous crimes up until the point where they become too grotesque to ignore.

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