Net Registry argues that online business in Australia is the forgotten casualty in the recent debates over Senator Conroy’s internet filter. "This issue isn’t about censorship – it should be about the damage these plans could inflict on the internet economy," NR says
Net Registry’s Comments are made in comments found here.
CensorFree says the issue must be fought on a number of fronts:
- the principle that the government should not censor the citizen’s communications,
- the reality that Australia’s two-way access to information would be slowed, and the internet economy damaged, and
- the right and the responsibility parents have to decide what is best for their children rather than a government centralising power and control over its citizen’s lives.