Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law
February 5, 2010 – 2:31 am by JohnI don’t think this news story got enough attention: from Ars Technica I read that an internet uprising led to the overturning of a very Orwellian censorship law in Australia. The law, which had taken effect just weeks prior, banned anonymous political commenting online. Can you imagine the twisted set of morals and the creepy desire to control other people that led the Australian criminal class to pass such a law? It is small consolation that the government backed down to the popular pressure and revoked the law, but don’t let anyone fool you that “the system worked.” I consider it an indictment of the system that there exists any group of people who have the power to enact such restrictions on the behavior and speech of anyone else. The fact that they want such power is proof that they shouldn’t have any power over anyone. Yet they still do. The system is a heinous affront to the individual sovereignty and liberty of everyone, and it doesn’t work for anyone but the professional criminal class.
