The Australian government will fail to censor the web next year. It has failed every year since 1996, when it first announced its intention to do so. This is

The Australian government will fail to censor the web next year. It has failed every year since 1996, when it first announced its intention to do so. This is smart politics. The government tells Australia's religious kooks that it's on God's side. Meanwhile, the civil liberties mob focuses on something the government can't do, and it gets up to worse bastardry with less embarrassment.