Brad

"To achieve our goal of maximising the participation of Australian businesses and individuals in the digital economy, it is important that the Government and industry collaborate to ensure that people are as confident to interact and engage via the internet as they are offline. Consumers with digital confidence will increasingly find information online, communicate and interact via the internet and shop online. Businesses that have digital confidence will expand their online service offerings. The question we need to ask is 'how we can all work together to inspire online confidence?' " You are kidding right? Not one single proposal you've made will influence your apparent aims. It appears now that you've re-written your policy aims to cover-up the complete train-wreck you've created, and to re-frame the argument into a new, made-up nonsense-phrase "confident-online-society". Trust in online-commerce is not related to "unwanted content" online, nor is it related to "protecting the children". What actual, serious, online threats are you targeting? Phishing sites? Spam? Hacking? The answer - none. "However, the Government does not view this debate as an argument about freedom of speech." We do. Thats exactly what *everyone* - the voters - are concerned about. Yet you make no attempt to even acknowledge the point, nor do you actually address our concerns. There is a secret blacklist, created by an unaccountable bureaucracy, with no formal guidelines, with no appeals process or judicial oversight and the Government has specifically exempted the list from FOI requests. How is that *not* an attack on free speech?