https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/09/melbourne-cyber-conference-organisers-pressured-speaker-to-edit-biased-talk
By Josh Taylor
The Guardian
October 9, 2019
Organisers at the Australian Cyber Conference in Melbourne asked a speaker
to edit his speech on Australia’s anti-encryption legislation, after they
had dropped two other speakers, who were delivering talks related to
whistleblowing, from the line-up at the last minute.
Guardian Australia has learned that Ted Ringrose, partner with legal
advice firm Ringrose Siganto was told to edit his speech, and conference
organisers had sent him an edited version of his slide pack on his talk
stating that the original version was “biased”.
He said they took issue with a comparison between Australia’s encryption
laws and China’s, despite the fact that his talk points out that while
Australia’s look worse on the surface, in reality it is “just about as
bad”.
Ringrose said he pushed back at the attempted censorship and the
conference organisers agreed to let him present his talk as planned.
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