[vacri]

The main article is talking about blacklist filtering, not content inspection of any kind. There already was blacklist filtering and has been for years - when I signed up to the very awesome Internode (2007?), in their t's and c's there was a statement saying that there was a very small number of websites that they were forbidden by law to provide (route? resolve? can't recall), all from a government blacklist, and "you really wouldn't want to know what's on these websites"(ie: child porn). Internode is one of the good guys and Simon Hackett (owner) is huge on net neutrality - he will only restrict where the law demands it.

But honestly, moving overseas because of introduction of internet censorship? Why not campaign against it instead? Are there other things that disturb you here, or were you perhaps not being serious when you said you were 'seriously considering'?

If freedom of speech is what interests you, the RSF places Australia as having more freedom of speech than the UK, the US, and Canada. NZ and Ireland rate higher, so you may want to emigrate to one of those, but beware that the economies of both those places might make it tough to find a job.

If you're a polyglot, you've got a bit more choice: http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2010,1034.html

[csbutler]

Are you sure it was a website blacklist and not a newsgroup blacklist?

[vacri]

No, not sure. What stuck in my mind was the particular phrase "you don't want to see what's on these [sites? groups?] anyway" and not the thing being blocked. I'm happy to be corrected here.