[spectre] Fwd: Austraian Internet Censorship Victory!

[Melinda Rackham]

> From: "GetUp" <info at getup.org.au>
> Date: 6 August 2010 4:40:12 PM
>
> We won!
>
> Late last night the Coalition announced it won't be voting for an  
> internet filter that censors the web. This comes after the  
> Government responded to our campaign by deferring the filter until  
> 2012 (with the likelihood that the filter will never come back in  
> its current form).
>
> With independent Senator Nick Xenophon, the Greens and now the  
> Coalition all walking away from the ineffective policy of censoring  
> the internet, there is now no way for the Senate to pass this scheme.
>
> This is your victory. Thank you!
>
> Check out what we did together -- and hear about the ongoing global  
> fight here:
>
> http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=1274
>
> We've known all along that a system of internet censorship that  
> missed the vast majority of unwanted content, would encourage the  
> outsourcing of parenting and limit our online freedoms.
>
> And we've been joined in these endeavours by our friends at  
> Electronic Frontiers Australia and literally thousands of  
> campaigners in a grassroots movement.
>
> But firewalls, monitoring and governments blocking websites was  
> never just an Australian problem. With our victory comes the  
> realisation that social movements in Iran, China and Burma are still  
> fighting for their political freedoms online. In fact, 30% of the  
> world's population live in regimes that block access to parts of the  
> internet.
>
> Responsibility falls on us, on this side of the firewall, to help  
> our friends who are forced to live with censored internet and the  
> axing of their political freedoms. That's why, in partnership with  
> our friends at global campaigning group Avaaz, we've gotten behind a  
> worldwide anti-internet censorship movement -- AccessNow. Access  
> provides ways for you to provide your voice, your bandwidth and your  
> resources to continue the global flight.
>
> http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=1274
>
> Today's announcement is a real example of the power of an organised,  
> mature, online movement. Indeed it was new technology and the power  
> of online campaigning, which was itself at risk from internet  
> filtering, that brought this campaign to the masses.
>
> Thank you being a part of this movement,
> the GetUp Team
>
> P.S. It's an historic day for our democracy, as the headlines from  
> Canberra read: "GetUp! High Court win overturns Howard's electoral  
> laws." More to come on this HUGE victory...
>
>

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