MikeFitz with overflow bit set…

Future Filter

Sun 10 Jan 2010

My basic argument against the government’s mandatory internet filter is
It won’t work; it’s a waste of our taxes; parents will let their guard down; children will be harmed.

However, there’s also this other niggling question…
Do I trust ALL future governments to NOT misuse the national internet filter infrastructure?

2009: The ACMA is blacklisting an ANTI-abortion website because its images are offensive to children.
2011 (as the filter goes live): We now have the national infrastructure to filter all RC material, including euthanasia and PRO-abortion websites.
2016 (after the revolution): The People’s Republic of Australia will now ‘harmonize’ all references to the Federation Square riot and massacre which, of course, DID NOT HAPPEN.
2021 (after the Jihad): The Islamic Caliphate of Australia will now filter all pro-Christian websites.

Who knows what the future holds?  If a national internet filtering infrastructure is in place, will it be mis-used?  It’s only a matter of time.

What sort of Australia do you want to leave for your children?

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8 Responses to “Future Filter”

1. Earth Says:
   January 10th, 2010 at 18:30

   The filter on the computers at Federal Parliament House blocks many sites including some political and alternate living websites. Senator Cory Bernardi writes about that in a blog in 2008.

2. archiearchive Says:
   January 10th, 2010 at 19:32

   A pretty bleak outlook which may not be as far fetched as we would like. I think your time scale is a little foreshortened but that is the only argument I would make. Malaysia will not invade until at least 2035.

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4. Ashleigh Says:
   January 11th, 2010 at 17:44

   Of course you are correct.

   Give pollies the tools and they will use them. That’s what power is for.

   What you show it not at all far fetched. And after seeing in the last 10-15 years the likes of Coonan, Alson, and now Conroy as appropriate ministers, if you think they won’t use it to their own ends you are like in cloud cuckoo land.

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