{"id":33064,"date":"2012-02-17T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33064"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:18:57","slug":"australia-google-urges-rejection-of-web-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33064","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Google urges rejection of web regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a title=\"Sydney Morning Herald - Google urges rejection of net regulation \" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/google-urges-rejection-of-net-regulation-20120215-1t6q5.html#ixzz1md7SaFfS\" target=\"_blank\">urged<\/a>\u00a0the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country&#8217;s internet be regulated in a similar manner to television, arguing it would be unclear how regulation online could be imposed without a filter. Its proposals, if successful, would\u00a0<a title=\"ZDNet - Internet giants oppose new regulator \" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/internet-giants-oppose-new-regulator-339331739.htm\" target=\"_blank\">usher in<\/a> a &#8220;new independent regulator for content and communications&#8221; that is technology-neutral. Google said it was &#8220;struggling with the one-size-fits-all model&#8221; the proposals made in the report, which is related to part of Australia&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Convergence Review Interim Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dbcde.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0007\/143836\/Convergence-Review-Interim-Report-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Convergence Review<\/a>\u00a0into determining if current media policy and regulation need amending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has urged\u00a0the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country&#8217;s internet be regulated in a similar manner to television, arguing it would be unclear how regulation online could be imposed without a filter. Its proposals, if successful, would\u00a0usher in a &#8220;new independent regulator for content and communications&#8221; that is technology-neutral. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,4883,584,585],"tags":[7382,4330,263,64,3759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33078,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33064\/revisions\/33078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}