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Comment Re:I did a CTRL+F (Score 5, Insightful) 401

Yes! That is exactly what it means. Australians have very few 'rights'. The free speech thing.. forget it.

There is a big issue with blogs, because, by Australian Law any presentation that may encourage dissent is illegal (remember: we were originally a penal colony). So the very nature of blogs.. ie opinionated ranting, ensures that they can be shut off without notice if anyone says they were offended. Indeed we have already seen this with wikipedia, wikileaks, yahoo and google group pages. Essentially, any ideas that have not been vetted by the govt is open to any misinterperetation and repurcusions..

Behold ... the future

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Submission + - YouTube filtering is on-line (theage.com.au)

ghostcorps writes: The Age Reports:
"Online video leader YouTube rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the website's persistent piracy problems. It's still too early to tell how YouTube's new filtering system will affect the seven-month-old Viacom suit, said Mike Fricklas, Viacom's general counsel. "We are delighted that Google appears to be stepping up to its responsibility and end the practice of infringement," he said. YouTube said it has been encouraged by early tests of its filtering system with nine content providers. Only two of the test participants, Walt Disney Co and Time Warner Inc, were willing to be identified."

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