A great deal of the comment has been sensationalist and based on ignorance. But that does not excuse Internet service providers from carefully considering their role in the community and adopting considered and sensible policies about what they publish on their systems. Netspace Online Systems Pty Ltd aims to be a responsible Internet service provider. This policy paper sets out our publications policy. At Netspace, we do not accept that anything goes.
Censorship is a necessary evil in a free, mature society.
As such, it should be kept to an acceptable minimum. On reflection, few would not agree that some material is not appropriate for publication or transmission. Restricting the transmission of material is more of a concern when there are few channels for such material to be distributed. In a country with a hundred newspapers, some may well be thoroughly biassed one way, but the availability of many other newsapapers is likely to guarantee a diversity of opinion. In a country like Australia, no-one objects to a newspaper or journal which avowedly publishes material which is censored or biassed.