Internet Censorship

[Kamshaaft]

Originally Posted by bdave351

thats why the previous govt had a free home based PC filter that could be installed on your computer available. Something the current govt canned and is instituting the country wide MANDATORY secret blacklist.

(Yes Im very angry about it, and Im normally pretty right wing)

I agree with most of the sentients in your post. Sentiments common among most of us. But this bit is a bit of a cheap shot mate - The previous government spent $84 million taxpayer dollars developing a filter which was hacked and bypassed by a 15 year old within 30 minutes of release.

On this topic, I have a few quick words to put down:

Firstly - Nobody should support this filtering, no matter what their political stance. It's not a question of where your bias lies but a question of you freedom. We need to watch ourbacks as tightly as we can in this country, because technically we do not have any rights. So, like this man said, it's a very slippery slope - especially for us. We have nothing with which we can claw our way back up the slope with. No constitution, no civil rights, no legal standing, no nothing. Do you want this to extend to no choice, and no freedom?

Secondly - There already exist third party software for protecting children which can be installed by CHOICE and the options are customised to parental discretion. There is no way in hell a body with interestes such as the government shoul have a hand in such a scheme.