Laughable

The title of this post is laughable (We Hear You ...) - you might hear us but this Government has clearly done a deal with somebody and is intent on not listening to the people on this. Sure, some lobby groups might be willing to risk our democratic right of free speech so they can say they are protecting children from abuse or anorexia, but we all know that content filtering will not achieve their goals. I'm sure even they are intelligent enough to know that. Conroy is clearly intelligent enough to know that filtering will not stop these people getting the content; we have seen how sophisticated and organised they are. What alarms me though is that any Government is willing to put the tools to control the media into the hands of future Governments. Once this infrastructure is in place there is nothing to stop a future radical right wing Government to just decide to filter the Australian Labor Party website, filter our all references to the party and completely control the media. Sure it might be hard to see that happening in 5 years, but who would have thought that the Howard Government would every have enough control of the senate to introduce the workplace and anti-terrorist laws that it did. There is just too much at risk here Senator. You are gambling with my rights.