if you have been tracking the news today the australian government is attempting to subvert the freedom by which australians are able to choose what information they consume on the internet.

to make matters worse, they have brought pressure to bear on a critic of this move.

mark newton, a network engineer for isp, internode, wrote a letter of dissent to his member of parliament.

the government retaliated, attempting to force mark to tone down his dissent through his employer, internode. i won’t go through the entire saga, which asher sums up well enough in his article at the smh.

if you consider yourself a net professional, take action.

if you consider yourself an advocate of free speech, take action.

if you consider yourself a resident in a democracy, take action.

the government’s clean feed plan does not just filter out child pornography as the government trying to sell it? how many australians are child pornographers? why should we be treated as such?

the blacklist they propose can be expanded to any topic, as they have shown this week, they are not afraid of trying to silence dissenters. if they have the power to block your blog because you don’t like their policies, they can.

who has the right to determine what you can and read and think?

this is not iran, this is not china. do not allow a bunch of bureaucrats to censor you!