"Any content-based regulation of the Internet, no matter how benign the purpose, could burn the global village to roast the pig." - Judge Stewart Dalzell, ACLU -v- Reno, 11 June 1996
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This group is forming in anticipation of the proposed legislative changes to force Australian ISPs to filter access of every account.
Australia is slowly waking up to ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it seems to be a case of apply the most ineffective and intrusive means possible.
No-one is saying that we don’t want kids to be safe. The overly simplistic gainsaying of our new senator for Internet Censorship, Stephen Conroy, and the suggestion that anyone challenging the plan is somehow suspect or dismissive of the issues of child safety are quite insulting and counter to a healthy public debate.
The KEVIN07 campaign was predicated on the catch phrase “Have your say”- let’s see if they still want to hear from us - even if we aren’t lining up to buy the shirt.
Some good arguments are already being presented in the blogosphere - I think it a little naive to assume that because other nations use similar approaches they must be OK - Australian net infrastructure and business models are quite different to other places in the world, and we do not have the benefit of a Bill of Rights to ensure that the filtering remains democratic.
While there is the possibility of exposure to debatable content on the net - the PROBABILITY is that most users will not need anything but their own behaviours and choices to avoid accessing such content.
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NOTE: This group is set so that you need to be a member of the Australia network to join - sorry for the inconvenience - can only change it by recreating the entire group.
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(read less)"Any content-based regulation of the Internet, no matter how benign the purpose, could burn the global village to roast the pig." - Judge Stewart Dalzell, ACLU -v- Reno, 11 June 1996
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This group is forming in anticipation of the proposed legislative changes to force Australian ISPs to filter access of every account.
Australia is slowly waking up to ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it...
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