"[P]reventing information flow, communication or the exchange of art, film and writing on the internet is a task only King Canute would attempt."
Bob Debus, (then) NSW Attorney General, Speech at the OFLC International Ratings Conference 2003.
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Why is a free internet important? Australia has no free speech protections. Politicians can introduce laws regarding restricting any material. Minority, conservative, special-interest groups can influence the government to ban harmless fun. Our censorship board bans legitimate material to pacify these groups. Everyone just blindly follows. In my opinion this wastes time and money. This is my line in the sand.
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- American Atheists
- Angry Aussie Blog
- Atheist Bitch
- Atheist Nexus - ISP filtering page
- Australia Uncensored
- Australian Children Foundation - Some real facts
- Australian Government Supplied Net Filter. This thing works. Takeup rates are very low despite being advertised... maybe no-one wants filtering. Da Da DAAAA!
- Australian Sex Party
- Ban This URL - Blog about censorship in Australia
- Conroy Logic - It may as well be fun.
- Digital Liberty Coalition - Getting online groups together to fight for our online rights.
- Electronic Freedom Project
- Electronic Frontiers Australia
- Facebook - No Australian Internet Censorship
- GetUp's No Clean Feed Blog
- GetUp's No Clean Feed Campaign
- Homosecular Gaytheist
- Index on Censorship
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- IT Wire blog with Stuart Corner
- Jewish Atheist - There are lots of culturally Jewish people out there.
- Libel Reform - Libel Laws in UK are disrupting scientific/skeptical discourse.
- Libertus - Information Laundering
- Net Alarmed - Being alarmed and uneducated is more fun at Net Alarmed
- Net Censorship Posters for fun and rallies
- No Censorship
- No Clean Feed - Blog
- No Clean Feed - MySpace Page
- No Clean Feed Forum
- No Cleen Feed
- NSW Council of Civil Liberties
- Open Internet Project
- Open Net Initiative - World Map of filtering
- Overclockers Wiki on Australian Internet Filtering in the press
- Pharyngula - Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
- Radical Atheist - Think About It
- Rant and Reason - Humanist perspectives on breaking news and politics
- Religion Virus, The
- Safe For Kids - Cyber Smart Kids
- Safe For Kids - Netty's World
- Safe For Kids - Virtual Global Task Force
- SAGE - System Administrators Guild of Australia
- Secular Outpost
- Skepchick - Reality has never looked so good.
- Skeptico - Critical thinking for an irrational world
- SMH
- Somebody Think of the Children (best said in an hysterical voice whilst flapping hands in the air looking like you might faint)
- Somebody Think of the Children's writer Michael Meloni
- Stephen Conroy: Minister for Fascism
- Stilgherrian's Blog
- Stop Internet Censorship
- The Atheist Blogger - "Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further." Jack Pritchard
- The Gift of Censorship
- The Porn Report is the book of research conducted to test the ideas that porn leads to sexual misbehaviour
- Waking Giant
- We were offered a Broadband Revolution by Labor and look at what we got.
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