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[1 Jul 2009 | 4 Comments | ]

I’ve been closely following the ongoing saga of the Federal Governments attempts to implement a national filtering schema to prevent access to what it deems to be questionable or inappropriate material. While a fair proportion of these sites seems to fall into the category of adult material (pornography) or hate speech, there are also a few notable instances where this is not the case.
The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported:
“The Federal Government has now set its sights on gamers, promising to use its internet censorship regime to block websites hosting …