The government wants to make it easier for the copyright industry to sue ISPs and force them to censor the internet, according to a draft paper about to be circulated. The paper outlines the demand that ISPs censor the internet and to remove the legislative hurdles that prevented the copyright industry from successfully suing major ISP iiNet in 2012. The Act can also potentially mean that the government has full decision over what content should be banned, creating an unfair equality on the internet independence.

At the same time, they intend to enforce a mandatory data retention scheme that ISP's must be forced to store data on their customers. ISP Filtering and data retention powers are too open to abuse, especially when the Australian citizens have not had their say in the debate. Let's fight back. Let's be heard.