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Not a Party to Online Censorship

The US ambassador in Australia has publicly spoken out against the Australian government’s plans to censor internet content at the Internet Service Provider level. This debate and issue has sparked controversy all over the world for the past year now and the US ambassador to Australia refuses to stay silent on the issue. The Aussie government claims that the planned internet blocks are primarily designed to block the online casinos, but the censorship list has grown well outside of the gambling industry and is already showing signs of giving the government dangerous control over internet content in the country. The objections actually go well beyond just the online casino industry and more into internet neutrality and internet freedoms. The Aussie government will be taking a huge portion of control over the internet freedoms of its citizens in a manner and to an extent that is not at all supported by the US Obama Administration.

Jeff Bleich is the US ambassador to Australia and he has made headlines related to his outright critical comments regarding the Rudd government’s plan to block online casinos and other questionable sites through a full ISP censorship program. The US’ position notes that the measure is too extreme and that the Aussie government can achieve the same goals with a less invasive approach, without full censorship. The US takes the position that the internet “has to be free” according to Bleich; there are many other methods of blocking the online casinos and bad content without such a blatant infringement on Aussie internet rights.

Interestingly, the US is far from the only country opposing the planned Aussie censorship. There are countless other organizations and individuals voicing some intense criticism of the planned ISP censorship. It also definitely hurts the Aussie government’s cause that China is planning similar blocks for anti-online casino measures; China’s censorship is not a model any free country wants to follow.