{"id":1960,"date":"2010-11-18T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-11-18T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:39:26","slug":"australian-internet-censorship-plans-get-even-crazier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/11\/australian-internet-censorship-plans-get-even-crazier\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Internet Censorship Plans Get Even Crazier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be an under-reported twist to the plans for Australia to implement ISP-level &#8220;filtering&#8221;, comes a plan to ban all forms of tobacco advertising online<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/internet-cigar-fanciers-create-a-stink-20101116-17vz3.html\">Internet Cigar Fanciers Create a Stink<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The ever-present cigars mean Mr Reilly could now be in the sights of the federal government, which is expected today to put forward legislation banning all forms of tobacco advertising online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This legislation will bring restrictions on tobacco advertising on the internet into line with restrictions in other media,&#8221; the Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As pointed out in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techeye.net\/internet\/aussie-government-wants-to-remove-smoking-from-the-internet\">this article attacking this latest concept<\/a>, the whole idea of the filter and the government controlling what is and is not online is just getting stupider and crazier.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t we been told for months and months and months by Senator Conroy that the filter would be &#8220;just about child pornography and other similar material&#8221;, and that there would be no scope creep?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your scope creep folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems to be an under-reported twist to the plans for Australia to implement ISP-level &#8220;filtering&#8221;, comes a plan to ban all forms of tobacco advertising online Internet Cigar Fanciers Create a Stink &#8220;The ever-present cigars mean Mr Reilly could now be in the sights of the federal government, which is expected today to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,384,404],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}