I'm not a fan of online petitions, I am not sure they really help.

This issue is probably worth our 2 minutes though even if it just demonstrates that there is a bit of noise out there about the bloody stupid filter. This one was forwarded to me by someone who I tend to respect (Uni professor dude up here in FNQ) so I thought I'd forward it here. I have no idea what "GetUp" do with your email address so use at your own risk.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

Just go sign? They're nearly at the 105,000 signature target which is kind of significant I guess, even for an internet petition...

GetUp will continue to spam you on social causes (ie. hippy rallies).

That's the worst I've seen thus far..

Just use a Guerilla Mail temp address in case they want you to verify it. You'll be a statistic in their bulls*** petition, but save yourself from the spam they will inevitably send you.

Thumbs up for the Flash animation on the right of that page though, very cool.

*EDIT* Oooh, they're clever. You enter you email address on the first page, thinking that's all you have to do, then on page 2 you get a form to fill in with your contact details. Then page 3 they give you widgets to put on your MySpace ;-) Their web-designers are good.

BTW, feel free to email me on nocensorship@guerrillamail.org for the next 43 minutes...

*EDIT EDIT* I like this bit at the end of the automatic email you receive after signing up:

PS: You are now part of over 275,000 people who are working together to build a progressive Australia.

GetUp will keep you informed about important national issues and provide ways for you to take action.

Here I was thinking that we were living in a democracy and the way for us to take action is to vote carefully. I'm clearly being mislead.