Internet filter danger

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    Date: 
    7 July 2009

    Remember the images of German soldiers marching through the Arc de Triomphe after conquering Paris during World War II?

    Or those grainy black-and-white photographs from May 1933 when the Nazis embarked on their campaign of burning all books considered to be subversive?

    Do you recall the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984? Perhaps the burning books in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451?

    Welcome to Australia in the 21st century, where totalitarian history meets science-fiction and dark political satire.

    Welcome to the Rudd Government's internet filter.