Comments on: ACMA Reports on Internet Filtering – filtering? yesterday’s policy. http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/27/acma-reports-on-internet-filtering-filtering-yesterdays-policy/ an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Donley http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/27/acma-reports-on-internet-filtering-filtering-yesterdays-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-55773 Paul Donley Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:00:35 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/27/acma-reports-on-internet-filtering-filtering-yesterdays-policy/#comment-55773 Jezu-Christos! Will Australia resist, in retrospect usually, every direction the Internet moves? I hear the sonorous, reverbating intonation of a Parliamentary Minister (well tanned after a two-week fact finding mission to Barbados): "Let us Fear. Not that God will take away those fears, but that our government will not protect us from any whim or whimsey..." (Now, is THAT parody??) To block child pornography sites is only reasonable. The list can be published, and every reputable webmaster will happily comply. But to label and associate every opportunity for communication and interaction on the Internet as "predatory" (- or, as seems to be the goal, to imply such an association -) is to insult the intelligence and reason of every person in Australia who uses the Internet. According to the best figures I've seen from last year, that'd be about 65% of all households; and nearly every school. PD Jezu-Christos!
Will Australia resist, in retrospect usually, every direction the Internet moves?

I hear the sonorous, reverbating intonation of a Parliamentary Minister (well tanned after a two-week fact finding mission to Barbados): “Let us Fear. Not that God will take away those fears, but that our government will not protect us from any whim or whimsey…”
(Now, is THAT parody??)

To block child pornography sites is only reasonable. The list can be published, and every reputable webmaster will happily comply. But to label and associate every opportunity for communication and interaction on the Internet as “predatory” (- or, as seems to be the goal, to imply such an association -) is to insult the intelligence and reason of every person in Australia who uses the Internet.
According to the best figures I’ve seen from last year, that’d be about 65% of all households; and nearly every school.

PD

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