Government to censor the Internet

[5FDP]

Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has said that the filter will block only content that "you can't buy [on] DVD" or watch on TV.

I'm assuming that this means 'released material only' not stuff that has yet to be shown or made available to purchase. This sucks for anyone wanting to catch-up on their favourite TV show when the networks here refuse to show it or give it a regular airtime.

The government is really trying to control what we all watch and when aren't they. Sounds familiar to another country I know of...

[Hursticon]

A win in the filter debate (for everybody) (poor article, IMO; once again, it's author shows a profound poor understanding of the issue)

Your not wrong there SGB, the "Majority" of non-supporters will be satisfied with the RC Review? - Is Mr. Riley serious?

Cyber Safety Committee censors Family Guy (I suspect Mark Newton was baiting the committee, and they fell for it, hook line and sinker)

Gees, the amount of Stupidity that Governs our country is astounding...
I wonder what they thought of the Drawn Together Movie.

[Golden Phoenix]

Every time I hear Conroy speak about this I always hear something like this in the background.

Wonder why?

[SGB]

Adam Internet runs filter tests

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Your not wrong there SGB, the "Majority" of non-supporters will be satisfied with the RC Review? - Is Mr. Riley serious?

It's a good if not very inventive move if you're pushing for a filter - claim a partial victory, misrepresent opponents' position and ignore the arguments against it, and marginalise those who are totally opposed as fringe extremists.
Classic politics 101, Not Opting Into Child Porn Mark II but with a dash of subtlety. No one who's following the debate and knows the facts would fall for it, but that's not who the article would be targeted at.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

As a small thought, it's probably too late to get a net-roots party registered right? 'Cos a Melbourne-based "Anti-Child Porn Party" handing out How to Vote cards with Conroy last on the ballot might be a good idea. It's not like all of us don't know that the filter will, if anything, aid child pornographers by sweeping the issue under a rug rather than focussing on catching and jailing producers.
You probably wouldn't even need to be a party, just an organisation calling yourself the Anti-Child Porn Alliance or Concerned Citizens Against Child Porn or something. There are enough techheads concerned about the filter to make the idea feasible.

EDIT - It should totally be called the "Won't Somebody Please Think Of the Children? Party"

[kup]

As a small thought, it's probably too late to get a net-roots party registered right? 'Cos a Melbourne-based "Anti-Child Porn Party" handing out How to Vote cards with Conroy last on the ballot might be a good idea. It's not like all of us don't know that the filter will, if anything, aid child pornographers by sweeping the issue under a rug rather than focussing on catching and jailing producers.
You probably wouldn't even need to be a party, just an organisation calling yourself the Anti-Child Porn Alliance or Concerned Citizens Against Child Porn or something. There are enough techheads concerned about the filter to make the idea feasible.

It's true. To child pornographers, the filter is like the ultimate distraction tactic. The public thinks it's no longer happening because of the filter and the Government will stop any real effort in putting down child pornography because officially their filter should be doing the job.

It's ridiculous.

[Golden Phoenix]

It's true. To child pornographers, the filter is like the ultimate distraction tactic. The public thinks it's no longer happening because of the filter and the Government will stop any real effort in putting down child pornography because officially their filter should be doing the job.

It's ridiculous.

The other down side is that it gives parents a false sense of security. They will think the internet is a safe place when it really isn't. There is some really scary stuff out there.
The kinda scary stuff that stops me from hitting the random page button on Encyclopaedia Dramatica

[SGB]

Looks as if the Liberals are against the filter:

http://noaustraliannetfiltering.blog...in-cairns.html

I'll wait for official confirmation before getting too excited.

[Golden Phoenix]

Looks as if the Liberals are against the filter:

http://noaustraliannetfiltering.blog...in-cairns.html

If I had been in their position I would have let it continue on and on, like they have, without giving my position on it until now. Now is the perfect time for them to make it an election issue.
It might be shelved for 12 months, it is still there waiting to be brought in, they can now make a big fuss about it on the big stage and make it an election issue.
Painting Labor as a censorship government like China's for an key issue would probably bring some votes their way