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Australia Reasoning

We have discussed the fact that Australia has a form of censorship that bars its citizens from certain forms of expressing their views and speech.

There are multiple reasons why this is justifiable from the government's point of view in Australia. The most important being internal security issues.

Australia is quite involved with its security interests. They claim that it is valid to censor sensitive material on the Internet such as making a bomb or getting away with rape. From their point of view one has to ask, "What do you think someone is going to do once they make a bomb?"

Eat it? Give it to the homeless? Probably not, they are going to blow some stuff up. This is truly only a negative activity in Australian society, and the government is trying to put an end to it for that purpose.

For the sake of protecting everybody in the population of their country the consensus in Australia is to strictly prohibit such material.

Australia is in the process of getting a law enacted, which prohibits all content on the Internet that is already prohibited in literature, film, and video. This was pushed after a couple of teenage kids learned how to make bombs from reading articles off of the Internet. (Herald Sun 6/25/95 p.30). They are trying to make sure that this does not happen again.

Last Updated 4/24/2002
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