Melbourne cyber conference organisers pressured speaker to edit 'biased' talk

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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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