Web Filtering Proposals: Crucial Child Safeguard or Censorship Tool?

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    Date: 
    8 May 2009

    (CNSNews.com) – An Australian group campaigning against government Internet filtering proposals has been ordered by the government to remove a link to a U.S.-hosted Web site showing graphic pictures of aborted babies.

    Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) says the government order to remove a link to a page on the AbortionTV Web site reinforces its concerns that Internet filtering will lead to the blocking of political content.

    But some supporters of the government proposals, which aim to prevent access to child pornography sites, view the censorship argument as a smokescreen and part of a misinformation campaign.