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Australia is one step closer to a totalitarian society with the announcement from the Government that their filtering test on the Internet was successful. While I do think there are many websites around that nobody should visit, it’s not appropriate to start controlling where people are able to surf. That’s similar to stating who’s allowed to publish certain kind of newspapers.

Senator Conroy has stated that the blocking can be done with 100 percent accuracy. The only problem in this equation is that who gets to decide what’s being blocked? In their test, they managed to blacklist poker sites, YouTube links, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites as well as religious sites – including Christian ones. There was even a Queensland dentist being blocked and if this project is taken further, no one will find out who’s being blocked in the future.

It’s really sad to see Australia take steps toward this direction.