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Sunday, February 01, 2009

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Cleaning Up Australia

What are the world's geeks saying about Stephen Conroy's internet nanny scheme? Blogwatch braves the cultural cringe to find out

Tech sites in South Africa are watching proceedings with interest too, while boing boing bounces back a post entitled "Australia's Great Firewall: just like China, Syria and other 'free' countries" (ouch) from ComputerWorld which nicely sums up the double discontent:

"The fact that it will likely reduce everyone's internet performance is secondary; it will most likely incorrectly block 1 per cent of sites, and now what you are allowed to view online is determined and controlled by the state (although most likely quite inaccurately)."

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