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Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will likely release a censored version of Enex Testlabs' report into the technical feasibility of ISP-level internet filtering, in an attempt to minimise the fallout on his political career.
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