Must read! Politician's dream of "Censorship will reduce crime" coming to the free-world!-----"Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party.

They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan. - Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger
When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. 

Copycat killings by governments? I asked. 

Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago. 

So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? 

Well, that was news, they said. 

• Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? 
• They didn't seem to know, or care...