Internet to become Filternet

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  • GORADIO0

    I think you're all missing the point... it's in the last paragraph or two.

    I think 99% of us would be agreed that child porn is bad, and that we should take measures to stop it. Because it is sick wrong and horrible and all.

    The problem is that a policy like this is 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater' as they say - the baby in this case being freedom of speech.

    The really scary thing - the point of the article - is that today, the Australian government have (however effectively or innefectively) banned child pornography, but tomorrow it could be Wikipedia. or QBN.

    It's scary because it's a step towards the kind of Big Brother/1984 vision of the future.

    • this sort of ban is dangerously close to them saying who you may or not converse with. The internet is not just 'media', its communication of all sorts.ribit
    • ... it's communication of all sorts.ribit

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