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Guest blog on Jenkins' MIT site about internet filtering in Australia by Mark McLelland from University of Wollongong.

Call for consultation regarding Australian government's mandatory internet filtering scheme. 

Rudd's internet filtering proposal is legally flawed. William's outlines simply how our existing classification system has its own problems and is unsuitable to classify internet content .

It's great to see that there is a legal argument against the filter, but it isn't something that Government is likely to take into consideration as they can easily get around it by defining the legalities surrounding the internet to be different to what we have currently. It proves their hypocrisy, but I doubt that concerns them...