Posts by Oz BOFH

Aussie net censorship turning Chinese

@"Victorian Dept of Infrastructure"

Australia is the world's most over-governed nation (read "nanny state"). These pollies and public servants need something to do. It seems that a large part of the populace wants the Government to do everything for them. "My kids are bad because the schools didn't raise them properly". "There was no sign there so I jumped in the river and broke my neck. Why should I check the depth, the Government should have erected a sign!".

Now it's censoring the Interweb to save our children. This is crazy. So many ways around it, and who are going to be the fastest to find the loopholes? You guessed it; the children!

FAIL

How is this an extreme free speech approach? You quite obviously do not understand what Mr. Conroy is proposing with this filter. Sure, he's selling it to the non-tech savvy public as a "saving your kids from the evil in the world", but if that were true then it would be an opt-in agreement, not this draconian measure.

This is a major threat to Australian democracy, and if you don't agree with that then you trust politicians far too much!

FAIL ... because you are commenting without understanding the topic.