David Fitches

A compulsory Web-content filter will do NOTHING to stop the people the government claims to be targeting, but it WILL allow the government to also filter "other unacceptable content" - A frightening phrase as the government refuses to state what this content is.

I find it frightening that the government will be CENSORING what I can and cannot see, and I don't even get to know whats on the list of 'banned material'.

This sort of censorship is a kin to Nazi Germany burning books which were contrary to it's philosophies. The government doesn't like it, it bans it. It started with our video games, now it'll be happening on the internet. How long till it spreads to our print media with books being banned for seditious content?

Do we keep gradually giving away all of our freedoms until we wake up one morning and realise we live in a society where we are no longer free to think and speak our minds for fear of government reprisals?

The government insists anyone with a contrary view point on this matter MUST be into child pornography because that then allows them to dismiss rational and logical arguments as the mouthings of criminals and ne'er-do-wells.

I vote - and I DO NOT want a compulsory web filter. Is that clear enough?

What a pity I can't trust the politicians to actually LISTEN...