From: "GetUp" <[email protected]>
Date: 6 August 2010 4:40:12 PM
We won!
Late last night the Coalition announced it won't be voting for an
internet filter that censors the web. This comes after the
Government responded to our campaign by deferring the filter until
2012 (with the likelihood that the filter will never come back in
its current form).
With independent Senator Nick Xenophon, the Greens and now the
Coalition all walking away from the ineffective policy of censoring
the internet, there is now no way for the Senate to pass this scheme.
This is your victory. Thank you!
Check out what we did together -- and hear about the ongoing global
fight here:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=1274
We've known all along that a system of internet censorship that
missed the vast majority of unwanted content, would encourage the
outsourcing of parenting and limit our online freedoms.
And we've been joined in these endeavours by our friends at
Electronic Frontiers Australia and literally thousands of
campaigners in a grassroots movement.
But firewalls, monitoring and governments blocking websites was
never just an Australian problem. With our victory comes the
realisation that social movements in Iran, China and Burma are still
fighting for their political freedoms online. In fact, 30% of the
world's population live in regimes that block access to parts of the
internet.
Responsibility falls on us, on this side of the firewall, to help
our friends who are forced to live with censored internet and the
axing of their political freedoms. That's why, in partnership with
our friends at global campaigning group Avaaz, we've gotten behind a
worldwide anti-internet censorship movement -- AccessNow. Access
provides ways for you to provide your voice, your bandwidth and your
resources to continue the global flight.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=1274
Today's announcement is a real example of the power of an organised,
mature, online movement. Indeed it was new technology and the power
of online campaigning, which was itself at risk from internet
filtering, that brought this campaign to the masses.
Thank you being a part of this movement,
the GetUp Team
P.S. It's an historic day for our democracy, as the headlines from
Canberra read: "GetUp! High Court win overturns Howard's electoral
laws." More to come on this HUGE victory...
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