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A letter to Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for censoring Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Is the minister aware of the censorship and inadvertantly restrictive effect of the British model so called “Clean Feed” earlier this week?

95% of British internet users were prevented from excercising free speach in editing Wikipedia because of one organisations decision that an image (a CD cover which incidently is available on other sites such as Amazon and can be purchased) was inappropriate.

You can read about it on smh.com.au but basically content that wasn’t considered offensive elsewhere on the internet effected access to the whole site [1].
Internet censorship at a national or provider level is not viable nor necessary nor supported by me or any of the people I’ve talked to (that’s at least 20 of my friends and colleagues).

I’d hope to see freedom of expression included in a Human Rights Act, the consultation for which was announced on Wednesday, and there’s no way your “Clean Feed” is going to fit with such a right.
Don’t bother – let the idea die and get working on a world class broadband network for this Country

Regards
James Fehon