Why No Form Of Censorship Is A Good Thing

[David Bird]

In May 2007, Turkey began censoring the internet. It started out innocent enough – according to Al Jazeera, they just wanted to block child pornography, online gambling sites, information on recreational drugs and sites which insult the country’s founding father. Today over 6000 sites have been blocked, including YouTube and parts of Google.

According to Wikipedia, other blocked sites in Turkey include: Youporn, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload, Deezer, Virb, Dailymotion, Google Groups, Tagged, Netlog, Slide, GeoCities, CareerBuilder, Alibaba, ShoutCast and WordPress.com.

Obviously Australia is not Turkey. But it’s interesting to hear that the Eastern European country’s filter began as an attempt to stop similar types of content from being accessed. Which makes it all the more important that we stand up and fight the filter now, before it’s introduced to parliament.

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[laurie]

lol its like speeding cameras they say its a Safety issue which we know is bullshit so they will say the same thing for the filter "To Protect Young Children" and if you are against it then you are supporting child pornography

laurie