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Google tells Australia its ‘Net filters go way too far  A day
after Google stopped censoring search results in China, it
warned the …  This can't be the way that Australia wanted it.
One day after Google announced its decision to stop censoring
its search results in China, the Australian government released
the results of a public consultation on its own Internet
censorship proposal. Predictably, Google has some objections
(PDF), including its oblique comment that Australia's mandatory
filtering scheme could "confer legitimacy upon filtering by
other Governments."  "Australia is rightly regarded as a liberal
democracy that balances individual liberty with social
responsibility," continues the Google filing. "The Governments
of many other countries may justify, by reference to Australia,
their use of filtering, their lack of disclosure about what is
being filtered, and their political direction of agencies
administering filtering."  Google is unlike