http://www.smh.com.au/business/its-a-dog-eat-blog-world-out-there-20120907-25jv1.html
''.....On a more critical note, Australia's preposterous defamation laws, the strictest in the world and based on a 100-year-old British statute, are now more arcane than ever, with the advent of new media. The internet is global and instantaneous.
Yet websites are being shut down and censored at an alarming rate. There are few resources in new media to stop corporations suppressing their critics. And this at a time when mainstream media budgets are under severe pressure. You can see where things are headed. If free speech is not protected and the influence of vested interests over government stays on the creep, it will not be merely shareholder democracy under threat....''
''....Unless there is reform, and it appears nobody in Canberra seems to be listening, Australia's defamation laws will continue to be used as a commercial tactic....''
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