Australia: Net filter will restrict euthanasia info: Nitschke

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Dr Philip Nitschke says that the Australian governments plan to censor the Internet will limit information about euthanasia.

Dr Nitschke says his group is on a leaked Government black list of sites that will also be blocked. "We'll find that we won't have the ability to talk to our many Australian members who want access to decent end of life information," he said. "So the Government is going to restrict access to elderly Australians for good end of life information and I find that quite disgusting."

[Note: Some other recent stories related to this topic are in the Links: section below.]

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  • http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/16/2773774.htm

    Also see:

  • Australia: Net censorship move a smokescreen: expert [The Sydney Morning Herald]
    http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/net-censorship-move-a-smokescreen-expert-20091216-kw7d.html

    University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt said the Government had still failed to address serious issues such as whether the internet filtering scheme would result in any meaningful reduction in harmful content and whether it was worth the effort, given the risk that the scope of blocked content could widen significantly…. Landfeldt detailed these issues and many others in an official report presented to the Government in February last year, which concluded that schemes to block inappropriate content such as child pornography were fundamentally flawed. The report, which also questioned whether Australian children were in fact stumbling across child porn and other nasty content while browsing, was kept secret for many months and was only made public after its existence was detailed in media reports.

  • Australia: Christian Lobby wants filter net cast wider [itNews]
    http://www.itnews.com.au/News/162962,christian-lobby-wants-filter-net-cast-wider.aspx

    The Australian Christian Lobby has called for a review of the mandatory internet filter within three years to expand its scope beyond the ACMA blacklist. Managing director Jim Wallace issued a statement claiming the Enex report had "proven the technological principle [of filtering] can be extended to deal with other harmful X and R-rated material on the internet. "This is now clearly feasible and we need a review in three years that might test this in practice, particularly using third party providers of URLs," Wallace said.

  • Australia: Some Obligatory Reading On The Internet Filter Issue [Gizmodo.com.au]
    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/12/some-obligatory-reading-on-the-internet-filter-issue/

    This is a wide collection of political and technical responses to the Australian government's decison to censor the Internet.

Source:

Razak, Iskhandar. "Net filter will restrict euthanasia info: Nitschke". ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Posted December 16, 2009 17:01:00. <www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/16/2773774.htm>. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Ultimo Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo NSW 2007, GPO Box 9994, Sydney NSW 2001.

Tags:

Tags (or keywords) briefly indicate some major topics of the report.

  • euthanasia

  • censorship

  • Philip Nitschke

  • Exit International

  • Australia

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