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The Great Australian Internet Blackout is a combined online and offline demonstration against imposed online censorship otherwise known as CleanFeed.  This Filter will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level and has officially been given the go ahead after completely ridiculous trials with minor ISP's.

What does cleanfeed mean to you?  Is this level of filtering any different to what the Chinese have been subjected to?  Historically, imposed censorship has the potential to be damaging on all fronts,  and the recent incident between Google and the Chinese Government is evident of this.

At its best Cleanfeed will:

• Increase ISP charges.
• Decrease bandwidth and Quota.
• Add unwarranted latency. (bad for gamers)
• Wont stop anyone with intermediate internet skills from accessing dodgy stuff.
• Be open to abuse by spammers and hackers.

If you would like to know more or to get involved in stopping this Draconian policy, you can visit the Official website here: www.internetblackout.com.au