Australian Government proposing internet censorship to rival China

I'm aware of some of the insanity out there on the web... suicide via media, anorexia worship, bullying people into suicide, abuse for notoriety, predators and their patronage, living room bomb makers. Any of this could make censorship look important. But there's another side. I received this in my email:

Hi,

Did you know the Government is proposing an internet censorship scheme that goes further than any other democracy in the world?

I've just signed a petition to prevent the scheme that will make the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally block up to one in 12 legitimate sites, will miss the vast majority of inappropriate content and is very easily sidestepped. The government of the day may add any ´unwanted´ site to a secret blacklist under the scheme.

Our Government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. Can you join me and take action on the net today to save the net?

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

Thanks!

Donna Williams

I'm known as 'the arty autie' and have been described as the embodiment of creative chaos

I'm an international bestselling author with 9 published books.

I've been a public presenter since 1994 and an autism consultant in the field of developmental differences since 1995.

I'm a qualified teacher with a background in sociology but largely I'm a prolific, fairly mad artist and singer songwriter with the band, Donna And The Aspinauts since 2008

I was assessed as psychotic at age 2 in 1965 when I was also thought deaf. Although I had stored speech (delayed echolalia), I was still tested for deafness till late childhood by which time I was labeled disturbed. It was then that my meaning deafness became understood and I was helped to discover interpretive meaning and with it, functional language. I was diagnosed with autism in my 20s.

Today I'm a bestselling author with 9 published books (all with Jessica Kingsley Publishers), an artist, screenwriter, autism consultant and public speaker. I live with my wonderful husband Chris Samuel in the hills, in Australia.
My website donnawilliams.net features my art works and books as well as articles and events and my blog.

I helped found an international self employment site for people on the autistic spectrum at www.auties.org and anyone autism-friendly is welcome to help us build a more autism-friendly world for what is one of the most under-employed groups of people the world over.

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