Oh my god
I thought Turnbull was being hyperbolic yesterday when he accused Rudd et. al of operating out of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Apparently not:(My emphasis). From the SMH, here.Senator Conroy has since last year's election victory remained tight-lipped on the specifics of his $44.2 million policy but, grilled by a Senate Estimates committee this week, he said the Government was looking at forcing ISPs to implement a two-tiered filtering system.
The first tier, which internet users would not be able to opt out of, would block all "illegal material". Senator Conroy has previously said Australians would be able to opt out of any filters to obtain "uncensored access to the internet".
I don't know what to say.
posted by Nicholas @ 9:21 PM
3 Comments:
This is highly disturbing.
My housemate has a good post about this, with lots of links to people who are fighting it:
http://goblinpaladin.livejournal.com/
Tim
sorry, the direct link, it's a couple of posts down --
http://goblinpaladin.livejournal.com/166996.html
Well, yes. The points I would have made, had I been less filled with rage - most of which your friend makes:
1. Why is this buried in trade journals and the technology sections of newspapers, and not on the front page?
2. I thought this was supposed to be a *labor* government? What is going on with federal politics, that we are now dependent on the Liberals to block things like this from happening?
3. I would be more worried if I thought this had a chance of becoming law, but I suspect it is an ambit claim to allow them to get through their (almost as bad) opt-out filter. Which I will of course immediately opt out of. While worrying, at the time, what secret government list of potential pedophiles and terrorists I have just put my name on.
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