Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is pushing for ISP filtering in Australia. He plans to get the legislation through before the next election. According to Conroy, the censor will protect children from coming across inappropriate material.
Since when do we need a nanny state? It should be up to the parents to protect their children from material their children should or should not be seeing, and even this should be limited. A twelve year old may be counted as a children under law, but my youngest brother can make rational decisions (and can probably get around the filter anyway).
If this censor is enforced, Australia will be on a slippery slope to becoming a police state. Already, our right to free speech is impinged upon by law. Our rights to free speech not protected, and furthermore our rights are not protected by law.
The internet censorship will be the first of it's kind in Western Democracy. It will restrict not only freedom of expression, but also freedom of information and will push Australia out of the international market for digital media.
My only hope now is that the senate doesn't put the legislation through.
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Gah. 1984 still gives me nightmares...
Yeah, same =/ According to Wikipedia, Labor doesn't hold enough seats in the Senate, so the legislation will be effectively scuttled... but I'm pretty sure that Conroy has been bargaining with the Christian Conservatives =.=
Just a by the way, you're starting to sound like a liberal... that is, using political jargon/labelling to antagonise/other people. You haven't been reading IPA Review, have you?
I use jargon all the time =/ bad habit I s'pose. And nope, I don't read the IPA review (which I am googling... right about now).
I antagonise because I'm freaking out about being censored. And that even though we trust in democracy, we have very little power to change anything.
I don't believe in censorship in a given country.
However, the internet should be regulated and filtered between countries.
One countries power should not be used to program another.
To create one way of thinking is to force one person's right on the other.
I say let people view the internet freely in their own countries, but make a person log on when accessing other countries.
This way, money couldn't be transported between countries and a presidency bought by the highest bidder.
There is no freedom of choice if a new world order is allowed to make all choices.
There is no freedom with class systems. In fact, I hate fucking class systems. All that does is take all hope out of this world and give it to the rich man who should not have been granted the right to begin with.
A righteous person gives for the sake of giving.
Whereas an evil person only gives to the person in the mirror while standing in front of a camera telling people how much they give people.
That is the problem with this world.
Giving needs to stop being a photo op.
@Shelly: Regulated and filtered for what though? Will these filters block information that people have the right to access? It's an interesting idea, but of course the logistics of putting something like that in place would be quite difficult.
I agree that one country's power shouldn't be used to program another, but unfortunately that seems to happen anyway... and there's not much the average person can do to stop it.
I'm not sure how class systems are related to internet censorship, but it does seem unjust that we are separated into groups according to wealth.
And what you've mentioned about giving for the sake of giving is especially important in light of Christmas celebrations.
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