Rant: VERY serious Issue of Internet Filtering

As some of you may be aware, there is the debate of internet filtering as mandatory in Australia. By reviewing all the internet websites and forums about it, pretty much everyone in Australia is unhappy with the idea. In fact the only people who seem to like the idea are the people in power. This, I call, is power abuse.

We elect these people to represent us and our beliefs - and they are failing to do that on a VERY serious issue.



I do support our rights of speech. I do support our freedom.





Some key links where people debate the topic:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/24/2399876.htm - this website was very critical of the idea, as I am. I freely admit it. And I rebel in the chance to actually freely say it. If this plan goes through, I will no longer be able to purchase online. I will no longer be able to say what I want online. And the government will gain a signficant portion of control over the people.

http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/060 - funny how this website shows only the positive side of the tests. Funny, isn't it, how its the governments very official website. See the .gov.au? That means government. Doesn't that suggest they are already trying to influence us by providing what they think as 'only safe material for us to read'? What, do they think that reading the bad effects in a more 'postive' or 'neutral' light might make us cry - and that would be bad for us because we are all little children.

Well to them I say this:
You are trying to protect our children - good
You are taking our rights of freedom of speech, etc. - bad
You won't claim any damages this may cause for the economy - bad
You refuse to believe there are other solutions, like actual parenting - bad
You seem to almost view us, each member of Australia, as pathetic children - bad
You should realise that majority of Australia is teens and over - good/bad?
You should realise that Australia's population is aging, so there will be less children - look that means less 'kids' for you to protect

If you ain't there to stop your kids from looking at porn, well doesn't that make you a bad parent? Hey, maybe your at work all the time, fair enough. If you are trying to support your family, your doing good. But if you aint there to raise your kid, they have to do the job themselves. And the internet is a good place for them to start; they have all the resouces, biased and partially-unbiased, all around them. If your so worried teach them that not everything is completely true.
God, put them in high school where its drilled into your head for 5 long years! Oh, but that's right, you haven't learnt the stuff they did. After all, you went to school a good 20 to 50 years back. Well welcome to the world, alot has changed since then...
http://libertus.net/censor/ispfiltering-au-govplan.html - this website outlines how hypocritical our government is. The government claims they support people's privacy, free speech, etc. Yet if you read the article they violate that in almost every sense.

More about this later on, for sure. And no don't worry, this blog won't become a political run off. I will be including more of the normal content. But its good to throw a whole bunch of stuff in. After all, "its all you could ever need".