Over 120,000 Australians have opposed this scheme including industry experts and even child protection groups (with child protection being the main argument for the filter). When it comes to realtime complaints, this Twitter search is averaging a complaint per minute right now! Many people have tried to make their voice heard over the past year, from meeting with their local MPs and Senators all the way to crowdsourced phone bombing campaigns! Google Australia is behind this protest too and has particularly taken issue with the ambiguous scope of the filter.
What is scary is that the censorship doesn’t stop at the filter, but is also present in the public justification for the filter. In an even more shocking move, the Department has indicated that it may not publish all submissions, singling out submissions made by individuals using online tools like the Getup campaign (that now has over 120,000 signatures on this issue).
