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Is it safe to assume that this government realises that this digital economy is overlaid onto an already established social set up? The filtering proposal suggests not.

The most successful online businesses use trust as the social mechanism underlying economic transactions. Amazon, eBay etc. Trust is how this thing works.

If you want to prepare people for a digital economy you could start by refraining from making out the internet is full of thieves and kiddy fiddlers. You can't prepare people for a digital economy until you get your heads around the idea that you just have to trust people. We all learn this thing by jumping in. You should be encouraging, not discouraging, that jump.