Free? Free to read what some bloke tells you you can damn well read!
The Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste millions of dollars and won?t make anyone safer.
It won?t protect children: The filter isn?t a ?cyber safety? measure to stop kids seeing inappropriate content such as R and X rated websites. It is not even designed to prevent the spread of illegal material where it is most often found (chat rooms, peer-to-peer file sharing).
We will all pay for this ineffective solution: Under this policy, ISPs will be forced to charge more for consumer and business broadband. Several hundred thousand dollars has already been spent to test the filter ? without considering high-speed services such as the National Broadband Network!
A dangerous precedent: We stand to join a small club of countries which impose centralised Internet censorship such as China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The secret blacklist may be limited to ?Refused Classification? content for now, but what might a future Australian Government choose to block?
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Does that mean that I won’t be able to get on the free porn sites which clog my mind with un-realistic expectations of myself and others? I could really do with something like that.
Hey, maybe Kevin Rudd is afraid of his daughters wedding night sex tape being leaked and wants to put a cap on it? You know how crazy those Queenslanders can get around farmyard animals after a few bubblies 🙂
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Did you just say "Kevin Rudd’s daughter in leaked sex-tape scandal!"
Yeah, I did. But it’s pure speculation. Well, fabrication really. Maybe a bit of dreaming too. Everyone wanted to bone Chelsea Clinton. Why can’t I want to bone Jussica Rudd?
iSpam. wtf?