Australian Labor Party Proposes ISP Level Filter

An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Labor Party (much the same as the Democrats in the US) are claiming they will force ISPs to block violent and pornographic content if elected. From the article: 'Mr Beazley said all households would be included in the policy unless there was a specific request for access to such material. It was "too hard" for many parents to install internet blockers on their computers to prevent offensive material being downloaded.'"

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Re:I gotta do it!

[MvD_Moscow]

I never understood this, why do you need a gun? The sole person of guns is to kill people. If you're all big on protection why not get a device that can bring people down but not kill them? Or do you need a freakin rocket launcher to protect yourself? Or how about spending money on a more efficient police and judicial system that does label recreational drugs users as criminals? Or is that too complicated for you? Then learn martial arts, the possibilities are endless....

Of course, you can say that you need the gun to protect yourself against the government, but that's just bullshit. If the government wants you dead, no gun will protect you. And anyways, gun owners tend to be conformist cowards who support things like illegal wiretapping, so this argument doesn't work.

Guns are stupid and have nothing to with protecting our liberties, if anything they undermine out liberties by making it easier for people to get involved in murder.

Please don't compare the right to have something as anti-social and counter productive as gun, with the right not to be censored.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but seriouslly guns are not an essential aspect of liberty and in a perfect world they should be banned along with things like organized religion and the military.