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By: Christabel

Christabel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:59:56 +0000

“I find the line in your website miss-leading, you say “When you consider Australia has the fastest broadband network in the world, this is still faster than other countries view websites.”

We are actually 9th in the world in terms of broadband speed. Sure we are ahead of the US and the UK but we are behind, Japan, France, Korea, Sweden, New Zealand, Italy, Finland, Portugal and finally Australia.”

The website is s a t i r e.
Lol geddit?

By: Craig Anderson

Craig Anderson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:50:19 +0000

After we clean out the porn sites Then we will get after all you radicals and free thinkers who dare to object to having your internet in the large part shut off.Whats next!!!Monitoring our PCs for any criticism of the govt.I think I’ll ask for a discount on my mounthly ISP account.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:05:58 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. You make some great points.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:04:46 +0000

Another mass easy fix thanks to Kev!
First they put floride in our drinking water because people are too stupid/uneducated about oral hygiene. (why should people be responsible for their own teeth? /sarcasm) Why not spend the money on educating people better? or Better still free dental care instead of spending loads of cash on a poison?

And now this! Instead of fixing the problem by going after people that creating these bad websites they are filtering it out so we can all live in ignorent bliss…..

Typical polical solution – don’t fix the problem just mask it up and ignore it.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:47:53 +0000

Filtering is bad mmkay. How do we know that they won’t start filtering out certain news and the like to brainwash us? China’s interet is filtered to all buggery and whos knows what they are being told about the world.

Mary – you are 100% right, people need to learn to be responsible for their actions otherwise they might as well wrap us all in bubblewrap and feed us via tube with a nutritous sludge.

That will teach you all to vote greens next time

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:27:50 +0000

Well done! What we need is for people to take responsibility for themselves and their families.

By: Ell

Ell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:20:06 +0000

After having first hand dealings with the OFLC and the way censorship is applied in this country, this new round makes me feel very afraid indeed… the folks charged with the task of deciding what you’ll have access to and what you won’t certainly will have a big responsibility won’t they? What do we know of the ACMA?

We’re digging ourselves ever deeper into the mire — legislation, guidelines, boards, review boards, grey lists, black lists – I feel sick at heart that my country continues down this road of restricting freedom.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:54:49 +0000

Rudd and Conroy should be ashamed of themselves. Mandatory filtering will be a gross invasion of privacy and freedom of choice, and violation of civil liberties.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:27:01 +0000

I for one find the concept of internet censorship extremely insulting.

I have the intelligence to control what I read/look at and more than enough of a role in my childrens life to keep them “safe” as needs be.

This censorship plan is a disgrace to everything australia has

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:14:08 +0000

Bring on the online petition please! Also – someone needs to let concerned parents know that these filters won’t even work – children will still be able to purposefully and accidentally find pornographic content on the Internet.

Also, I’m wondering if GetUp Australia would be interested in getting behind this? They have had a lot of success in petitioning the Government and have a huge membership base (I think bigger than all the political parties combined).