Bernard

Ministers and co,

Thank you for this opportunity to provide feedback towards the Australian gvts digital direction.

Although I gave my vote to your political party last election, had I known about your prosaic policy decision to censor the Internet, you would NEVER have received my vote. I say this for two main reasons.

Firstly, that your policy massively challenges and erodes the freedoms of our entire nation to discourage the few.

And secondly, that your 'blanket' policy making style is highly ineffectual considering the amount of money of mine and the country's you are wasting.

I am completely appalled and disgusted by this policy and its rationale. The policy erodes the digital freedoms of an entire nation on a grand scale in an effort to inhibit the few from watching 'child porn' and the like. This censorship is hardly going to stop those who truly want to view illicit material. A blanket censorship merely encourages specialised clandestine Internet groups. In effect, you cripple the nation's (assumed) freedoms while letting those who are breaking the law do as they please.

This type of blanket policy making is completely misguided and myopic. It is merely a tool to make finding illicit content harder for newcomers to the fetish. At the same time, this policy has no effect on those already viewing the content who I would deem to be the major threat (as shown above). I consider this to be a monumental waste of mine and the country's tax money. I would much rather putting the millions aside to (1) refine punitive measures as a deterrent, and (2) provide rehabilitation to those currently viewing the illicit content.

If I had any suggestions to you, minsters, and associates, it would be to target Internet content that truly harms Australians on a day to day basis. Now that isn't child porn, it isn't pro-anorexia websites (you must be joking?), it isn't gambling, nor is it any porno fetish. In fact, it a kind of content that is not simply distasteful to the morally righteous, but heinous by all civilised persons on Earth. The biggest threat to Australia via the internet is racial hate-mongering and hate-speech. Let me tell you now, if you and your ministry of half-wits can reduce bigotry via the Internet you will have made a reformer out of me.