Update: SA law on anonymous blogging to be scrapped

[_leareth]

As an update on yesterday's post, this was great news to wake up this morning.

South Australian Attorney-General backs down, will ditch law outlawing anonymous political bloggingIn Atkinson's words: "It may be humiliating for me but that's politics in a democracy, I'll take my lumps. This way, no one need fear now that they are being censored on

Comments

[naanima]

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh, how this cracks me up.

The question is - how will the implementation of the internet filter go? Will it cause such a backlash that will topple governments, or, should I start investing in international proxys?

[_leareth]

The legislation for the internet filter is to be introduced into Parliament sometime this year, most probably after the election. Until then, if you want to fight it then get involved, write letters to whoever is representing you in Federal Parliament and/or federal government departments, donate or volunteer at EFA, follow and see what you can do at NoCleanFeed, anything to raise awareness of it not just online where you're preaching to the choir but elsewhere. You've got time now, haven't you? =D