ben

Senator Conroy, Why is it the Government see's fit to be my moral compass? Do you think I am incapable of judging right from wrong? Do you think I am not able to properly monitor what my children view? I offer you a challenge. Try and find "kiddie porn" which is publicly available via a search engine. I suspect you will fail since the sick people who do such things use much less public means of sharing information. It is not hard to do and impossible to stop. If your intention is to stop undesirable images being displayed when you type the word "sex" into a search engine then you will also fail. I have in the past typed the most innocent of phrases and have been confronted with a barrage of large breasted women. If the intention is to stop using key words like euthanasia then ask you why?

With every new form of communications technology there are risk involved. People will abuse it but that should not place an adverse effect on the 99.9999% of people that use it in a proper way. Bad people will always find ways to do bad things and the rest of us are smart enough to know how to avoid what we do not want.

On a more broader aspect of the "digital economy", I make full use of it. I work from home because of it, I communicate via VOIP because of it, I keep in contact with relatives overseas because of it, I use it as a library, I can participate in discussions because of it and the list goes on. Without the "Digital Economy" my life would be worse off for it. Let the police do their work and you should sit down and produce a vision of what could be!