Australia's Internet Filtering Too Ambitious, Doomed to Fail
ars technica, December 5, 2008
By Iljitsch van Beijnum
Rather than actually doing something about illegal content, the Australian government is running a pilot program that simply makes a list of it and tells ISPs to filter everything that's on the list. This approach is politically murky and fraught with civil liberties problems. And besides, it won't work.
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