How much is Australia’s policy on internet censorship, copyright enforcement, surveillance and terrorism driven by the USA? In Sweden, similar questions, have been partly answered by recently-released WikiLeaks cables, as explained in this article by Rick Falvinge, founder of the Pirate Party.
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I think you will find that most of our reforms to freedom of speech – esp the filter – are more based on a Chinese model. At least publicly, the US has raised a lot of concerns about the filter here and upcoming government takeover of print media. We are in BIG trouble and there’s not much we can do about it.