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Australia Plans for Censorship

This feels a bit like a repeat of the previous article that highlights the Swedish government’s proposal to block foreign online casinos from the state as a way to protect state interests. In Australia, only internet betting is currently legal and the Australian government fears that problem gambling and other major issues will make their way into the country if additional measures are not taken to block the foreign online casino gambling industry. The only problem is, that like the United States, rather than embracing the invasive internet medium that is already infiltrating the country, the government is toying with the idea of censorship of certain sites that host questionable content.

The notion of censorship in a free society comes as a bit of a shock to individuals everywhere – there are better ways to block the online casinos than proposing an IP block of sites that then encroaches on the civil liberties of Australians. There is international outcry at the ISP censorship in the country because of the room for error, as well as the room for the government to overstep the boundary lines of fair and right and take the censorship too far. The initial censorship plan only planned to block child pornography sites and other illegal and obscene sites. What has flowed from the censorship now though is the blocking of online casinos and internet poker as well.

The most recent development had the Australian Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, appearing on national television as a way to assuage the concerns of Australians that they were losing some of their civil liberties. And though Conroy admitted to initial mistakes as the censorship process is in the infancy stages, there were no assurances that the online casinos and internet gambling sites are safe – in fact it is likely that they will continued to be blocked as long as the ISP censorship plans lay in tact.