90% of web snoop document censored
Found on Sydney Morning Herald on Friday, 23 July 2010
The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause "premature unnecessary debate".
Hernandez went further to say that she considered disclosure of the document uncensored "could be misleading to the public and cause confusion and premature and unnecessary debate".
Sure, that would be a perfect world for the government: nobody questions its actions. That has been tried many times in history and so fair failed. Well, except for dictatorships like China; but that's where Australia is trying to go.