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Submission + - Chaos after Conservative party announce mandatory filtering day before election

Dan B. writes: After Australia's Conservative party (LNP) quietly posted a policy to impose mandatory internet filtering just one day prior to the country's election, local premiere internet forum Whirlpool has gone in to overdrive with the fastest 50 page thread ever. At 8:30pm, both sides of politics were busy running media releases, with the Conservatives hastily back-pedalling on the policy, and the Government attacking it, accusing them of hypocrisy after voting down their own proposed filter 3 year prior, stating there was no proof filtering works.
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Submission + - A short summary following TPB trial closure (guardian.co.uk)

Dan B. writes: "The Guardian has a nice piece wrapping up the trial in Sweden for the co-defendants in the P2P trial-of-the-decade, that of TPB.

"Today, the defence lawyers summed up. It was a short trial and not a particularly merry one, but it could have far-reaching effects"

Amazingly when the defendants hit the stand they didn't bash copyright or take the libertarian approach, it all came back to the tried and tested formula for criminal defence, "I am not responsible""

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