Internet-based lobby group GetUp raised $30,000 in one day for their ‘Save The Net‘ campaign, which hopes to ‘plaster the internet’ with ads opposing the proposed net censorship scheme.
The campaign urged readers to donate in lots of $50 and $100.
“Your $50 will show 4000 people this ad, $100 will buy 10,000 views. Thanks for chipping [...]
“We will be operating on the newly coined ‘Conroy rule’,” wrote executive director David Vaile and researcher Alana Maurushat of the University of New South Wales’ Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre in an email last week. Participants at the Internet Filtering Forum were told that “it’s a variant of the ancient and practical ‘Hitler’ rule [...]