Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today welcomed widespread opposition to Internet censorship proposals by the government.

"The forthcoming protests by the Digital Liberty Coalition and the petition by GetUp! show the depth of community disagreement with the government on this issue", said EFA spokesperson Danny Yee.

The proposed censorship system would target web material that would be legal in other media. "Australians are unhappy with existing censorship of computer games and films. The last thing they want is even more stringent censorship of online content."
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