Censorship Knows No Political Bounds

Academic Freedom - Civil Liberties - Privacy

From Australian IT:

Labor bid to block net porn

Emma-Kate Symons

AUGUST 16, 2004

ALL internet service providers would be forced to block hard-core pornography reaching home computers under a radical plan to protect children being pushed by federal Labor MPs….

I’m not getting into the merits of the debate. I simply want to point out that conservatives have no monopoly on censorship. Of course, we knew that already because campus speech codes are an entirely left-wing initiative. But I couldn’t resist an off-campus example of left-wing censorship.

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