Carl M

It's slightly ironic that the Government has discovered the technology of blogging at the same time thinking they can control the Internet with the old-fashioned principles which guide the Office of Film and Literature Classification.

On the subject of the "clean feed" why is this policy being persued at all? The ISP's don't agree with it for technical reasons. Users don't support it because it will slow the net and block valid content. The only support I have seen is coming from people who don't understand the Internet or its operation and conservative groups who dream of social mind control.

Why is the Minister being so dishonest in his intentions of broad censorship and classification? Why even raise the issue of child pornography when this proposed filter will have negligible on child porn? Is fear the only valid reason he can muster or does he truly not understand the technology?

The Internet was studied as a means of maintaining communication in the event of a nuclear attack. Does the government really think it can control something capable of surviving a nuclear war? And how much economic activity and civil liberties will it suppress in trying?