Ed Tremble

First off I would like to say I think it is great to finally see some kind of public communication method such as this, having said that though.. Given the unwillingness to properly address or even seem to listen to the many and varied completely legitimate opposing views to the filtering proposal in the past, it would be naive at best to believe that people will not use this as an avenue to provide feedback about an issue that is going to affect their livelihood and potentially their freedoms-despite all assurances to the contrary.

I see a department and particularly minister concerned mainly about controlling the flow of all information, touting child safety or whatever subject or excuse best achieves the required emotional justification.

The fact that comments on this blog are filtered by a "moderation policy" BEFORE they are even posted speaks volumes and helps to illustrate where the priorities are.

We are not stupid, we can see for ourselves when people are being idiots on a blog and then watch as their comments disappear...

I have worked in the industry for more than ten years and I have never seen the government get IT so wrong, so many Australians wanted a change last year and voted accordingly, however the direction being championed by the current government will impact the industry in many terrible varied ways even the so hated AWAs from the previous Liberal government could not.

The economy is slowing due to current international factors and you want to kick the digital economy while it is down, using our taxes to pay for it all. Every other positive measure taken by this department will mean nothing in comparison to the proposed filtering if it goes ahead and will be the only thing on many people's mind come next federal election. So far it looks like AWAs all over again - democracy fails until the next government gets in on a promise to undo the publicly hated mistakes of a previous administration.