Aussies revolt over government's censorship plans

If this goes through, how far will it be pushed, what else will be taken away because the CAN be used to commit crimes, DVD buners? I'de like to see them try that one. The internet was not designed to commit a crime, its peoples abuse of it. People should be free to do so whilst fully aware of the consequences: freedom of choice.

We are not sheeple, we have our own minds, track people looking at child pornography, beastiality etc. Don't waste our time blocking up the whole internet, Krudd, or you'll get your unpopular backside foisted out of the chair like Howard did, over his Work Choices debacle.


"built from the gene pool of Britain's 19th century underclasses"

Oh, really?

I'll have you know that the Modern Australian state owes a large debt to the underclasses of Southern Europe, and to a lesser extent Asia.
(Aka Factory Fodder)

So there!

It's not so much that Australia was built on the gene pool of "Britain's 19th century underclasses", but rather that Australia was built on the best that Britain had to offer.

That's right, anyone who had any intelligence, gumption and drive left for sunnier climates (that is, everywhere on the face of the Earth other than Britain) to build empires of wool, gold and silicon.

In that great tradition, I welcome Mad Mike to the real world and hope his Indian empire is bountiful and fulfilling. Unlike an English summer/meal/heart/<insert racial stereotype >

Anyway, enough Internet nattering. I have to get back to my sheep shearing/kangaroo herding/Net censoring/<insert racial stereotype>

This is what you get when you put a bunch of liberals in charge.

If the Chinese firewall is the "great firewall of china" I wonder what Australias would be called, the "download proof fence"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence

Strangely enough, the average education level of convicts, sent to Australia, was better than the average for Britain at the time and the skill set was similar...you could say the f Transporting Convicts lead to a 'brain drain'.....

The modern Aussie appears to be a bit soft.....no R18 classification, censored interent.....harden up convicts and move to NZ.....;p

"This is what you get when you put a bunch of liberals in charge."

FYI.....Labour is in power at the moment.

It seems the Poms always drop a 'convict' reference in the same sentence as the work 'Australia'... but if I were to have a whinge about it, it'd just make me a pom, so I'll put up with it.

I happen to work in the same building as the Government Authority (ACMA) that's pushing for this... personally, I hoping the backlash doesn't break out physically (although that would be amusing).


The biggest problem in society today is people like Rudd, Stephen Conroy & Family First can't mind their own business. They have not consulted the public and want to impose their archaic religious beliefs of sin & purity on the rest of us. Now there's an evil!

It's the equivalent of say...a movement trying to ban religion in Australia. They'd call it Religious Discrimination and have a huge cry about it. Yet they continue to discriminate against the majority who don't want this ban and don't meddle in others private affairs.

This is all about the bigger picture. They are using porn censorship as a stepping stone for something a lot worse.

This is about controlling and limiting our access to information and preventing a nation of critical thinkers.

On the list of their bans:
porn, Peer-to-peer, torrents, gambling sites and any sites that oppose governments views.

And they are already offering extra insensitives to ISPs who help implement this.

If you dig around the net you will find other countries blacklisting free speech and those who decide to speak up against net censorship!!

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Finnish_internet_censorship_critic_blacklisted

I expect the same to happen in Australia no doubt!!

Australia is on its way to becoming a fascist nation!! This is bad! This is real bad!

Kevein Rudd! You have just signed your own resignation!

Wonder where these politicians get the ideas from? read on...

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation." - Adolf Hitler


1) They want to censor tits and ass, yet on places like YouTube where war videos are easily accessed, you can see humans getting their heads blown off. T&A is good for the human spirit!

2)They say it's to stop child predators from getting to our kids and preventing kids being exposed to unsuitable material.

But where do kids go online? They visit kiddie chat sites etc where it reeks of kiddie predators. So what are they going to do? Ban all the G rated sites too?

Child predators go where children hang out. Mostly and generally as a rule, kids don't hang out at porn sites.

If parents don't want their children viewing porn and oher offensive material then put the PC in a public traffic area of the house where parents can supervise them. This and installed filters on their PC works infinitely better than the current proposal aimed at taking people's freedom of choice away!

This clean feed filter will give parents a false sense of security, thinking their kids will be safe...meanwhile child predators will continue to lurk chat sites and other places children frequent and kids being smarter than parents will use proxies to bypass the filters and get what they want anyway.

The logic is screwed here. But what do you expect from a bunch of bible bashing peasants.


Well I think sport sites should be banned - the whole country is wasting too much time being encouraged into sporty activities and not working and it stops children studying. On line dating services get the chop - it promotes immorality and sexual diseases. Alcohol and related sites should go, they promote bad health. Religious sites get the boot - sites aren`t promoting enough harmony in society. Financial sites should go - they encourage people to spend too much. Government sites should go they tell too many lies.....................

One of my closest friends who lives in Australia told me "It is dispicable! With such laws as these, we won't be able to video our private sessions that are 18 class with the kangaroos and the kawallas let alone distribute it online, not to mention make it a full-time job and lots of money out of it". 

But we must give credit where due, these brave government people are walking a tight rope and their people don't like them, very much like having a Jew (Christ Killer) in a hard core Christian country or like having a homosexual in a Muslim country (Gory!) lol

I salute them for their courage and bravery (I wonder if they stumbled upon Link's Triforce of Courage?) but still, these people are very good Christians and they are following their commandments properly.

Crikey! All this is like something out of the shock doco Zeitgeist Movie! An omen indeed!

I can guarantee that is one movie DEFINITELY on the Rudd government's ban list!