alexolife

I can't say it any better than anybody else here already has, so I'll just repeat what I said in my letter to my local member. The ISP-side filtering plan yields exactly zero benefit to anybody in any way, except that it gives the Government arbitrary control over what we access on OUR Internet. The Minister's comment likening advocates of freedom of speech to child porn enthusiasts was disgusting and offensive. Child porn is distributed through peer-to-peer file sharing, and blocking the IP addresses of so-called "child porn websites" (along with whatever else the Government deems "inappropriate") will do nothing to prevent it, let alone bring the perpetrators to justice, let alone protect the children involved. Surely this is an opportunity for the Rudd Labor Government to set itself apart from the Howard Coalition Government by swallowing its pride and backing down from what is clearly an ineffective, costly and divisive policy.