Megatheriums for Breakfast

The Australian Government is proposing to enforce mandatory filtering of the Internet in this country, justifying the move as one to keep out floods of extreme pornography, but in reality potentially enabling it to block any web site with views it doesn’t like. Based on a ‘black list’ which it will maintain but prevent anyone else from seeing or checking, it could cripple Internet access to perfectly legitimate and innocuous web sites including Wikipedia.

Guy Rundle has a great article on this issue at the Crikey web site.

And the GetUp organisation is running rallies and an online petition. See below for the petition: