{"id":84951,"date":"2009-12-16T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Speaks-Out-Against-Australia-s-Plans-for-Mandatory-Internet-Censorship-129931.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-16T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T14:05:00","slug":"google-speaks-out-against-australias-plans-for-mandatory-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84951","title":{"rendered":"Google Speaks Out Against Australia&#39;s Plans for Mandatory Internet Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/images\/newsrsz\/Google-Speaks-Out-Against-Australia-s-Plans-for-Mandatory-Internet-Censorship-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" \/> Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we&#8217;re not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the culprit is Australia, a country that bills itself as a democracy. There are plans to institute a mandatory, country-wide filtering system, supposedly designed to keep out child abuse content, but which blocks a much wider variety of content and topics. Naturally, the plan doesn&#8217;t exactly have that many fans among political parties, rights organizations or companies and Google is speaking out publicly against the plan. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a bias in favour of people&#8217;s right to free expression. While we recognise that protecting the free exchange of ideas and information cannot be without some limits, we believe that more information generally means more choice, more freedom and ultimately more power for the individual,&rdquo; Iarla Flynn, head of Policy, Google Australia wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest issue with the system in its proposed form is that it censors a wide category of content classified in the country as Refused Classification (RC). These include child abuse and other contro&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Google-Speaks-Out-Against-Australia-s-Plans-for-Mandatory-Internet-Censorship-129931.shtml\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we&#8217;re not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the culprit is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}