An Australian Politician has come out against Internet filtering in the country, while simultaneously indicating he is against the addition of an R18+ rating category for videogames.

Shadow Treasurer and Liberal Party member Joe Jockey (pictured) let his opinions be known in a speech entitled “In Defence of Liberty,” which he gave to the Grattan Institute, an Australian public policy think tank.

Hockey called Australia's [URL=http://gamepolitics.com/2009/12/15/australia-preparing-censor-internet]plans for Internet censorship[/URL] an over-reach, [URL=http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/regulation/37523-hockey-internet-filter-unworkable-and-dangerous?start=1]reports IT Wire[/URL], and then added:

What we have in the government's Internet filtering proposals is a scheme that is likely to be unworkable in practice. But more perniciously it is a scheme that will create the infrastructure for government censorship on a broader scale.

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