tryittoo03

A feedback forum is a gesture. Whether it is more than an empty gesture of "virtuous openness" where in fact experience and real knowledge from the community carries little weight, remains to be seen. I am not hopeful when we see our politicians still so in love with aggressive cliches of Protection, Security and Pious moral virtue. We have had the last decade to ponder its many toxic consequences, but its shameless peddlers have shown little interest in ceasing to do harm or questioning their own behaviour. I teach elementary computing in the community to struggling beginners with their computers and the internet. They certainly do need to know how to be prudent and "savvy", and make sound judgments; and they often are using old computers that barely cope with their security software. The people I teach are not helpless or passive and they do learn to deal with their IT environment. As I see things, the ISP filtering plan not a solution to anything, except as propaganda and political theater.