Is the SA government censoring free speech online?
South Australia recently passed a law that will require all Crow Eaters to publish their real name and postcode when making a comment on next month’s state election online, and the Adelaide Advertiser has gone balls-to-the-wall with its coverage and outrage today. Michael McGuire: Labor gags internet debate South Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet under laws created by Attorney-General Michael Atkinson. The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month’s state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the poll. … “The AdelaideNow website is not just a sewer of criminal defamation, it is a sewer of identity theft and fraud,” Mr Atkinson said. Editorial: Censoring free speech in the secret state South Australia is a state that grants more suppression orders than any other, it is a state where it is acceptable to leave hundreds, if not thousands, of p
