Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has largely avoided the debate on Internet filtering during a live Web chat, despite several direct questions and comments by participants.
During a discussion dominated by climate change and bullying, the topic of Internet filtering raised strong opinions in the final minutes.
“It’s anti-democratic in my view. The Internet is probably the greatest democratic body to arise in our time! China realises this, that’s why they attempt in rein to censor billions of pages,” participant, jamincanberra, said. “In my view, Internet censorship at that level should probably be made illegal. Definitely not endorsed and funded by the govt… Money should be spent on improving our online security, not on censorship.”
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