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Today was the rally to oppose the government’s proposed Clean Feed policy, which is intended to stop illegal pornography. Why people are demonstrating against it is not because of that (as everyone knows the illegal content is not distributed on the generally accessed web anyway) but because the Internet for everyone may be slowed and because other material may be restricted (sites which are not illegal but provide information or support for supposedly undesirable things, bomb making, file sharing, anorexia, religion etc. etc ).

The previous government spent a large amount of money on providing all Australians with free software so they could block undesirable websites on their home computers, unsurprisingly this did not catch on. The new policy takes away the choice and seeks to block content at the ISP level.


As you can see the small crowd of Interwebs devotees, inc. myself, represented many of the marginalised sectors of society that may be affected. One notable face among the crowd was the former Miss Tasmania 1998 (holding poster) representing the angry community.