"The Australian company that runs the .com.au domain registry has been accused of abandoning its own procedures to censor a website satirising communications minister Stephen Conroy's ISP filtering regime. On Friday afternoon, Sapia Pty Ltd, the company behind stephenconroy.com.au, was told by auDA that they had three hours to explain its use of the domain or it would be withdrawn. "After several attempts at convincing them to give us reasonable time to reply we made a last-ditch attempt at 4.10pm stating that we provide a consultancy product with 'Stephen Conroy' in it's name," the firm said on its new site stephen-conroy.com." - alphaxion from Bookmarklet

well, that's it... we've seen the golden age of the free internet. Slowly, the internet will ripple around the world into a sandboxed den of perez hilton retardo-non-news bollocks. Any thinking citizens will be forced into using an undernet for real info and news. I wish I were being melodramatic, but with the way many developed nations are pressing ahead with regulations and laws designed to "protect us" - yet the rest of that sentence should read "from anything inconvenient to our politicians and corporate interests" - it won't be long until our internets will become theirs. Come on Robert Scoble, Chris Pirillo, Leo Laporte and Louis Gray... why aren't you covering this kinda news? We need voices to point out how much of a threat this is an how it's not just China getting into the act. You're in a position of influence, use it! - alphaxion