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Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters
ratzmilk writes "The Australian government is mandating the creation of 'clean' internet feeds. To be optionally made available to schools and homes that request it, the feed would offer built-in filters of 'pornography and inappropriate content'. Said Senator Controy: 'Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road ... If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.'"
So is it to filter out child pornography, or to filter out anything the gov says is "inappropriate?" It seems even the people doing the "protecting" arent exactly sure about what they are supposed to be protecting people from, or whom they are supposed to be protecting.
We always heard you australians were supposed to be a tough lot. You look more like sheep from here.
Baaaaaaaahhhh... baaaaaaahhh...
Clearly, the act of creating it is counter to our current collective sociatial morality
No, the act of creating child pornography is wrong. It is bad. It should be punished. The only "collective societal" differences that come into play are the amount of evidence needed to convict and the punishment. In the old days, if someone in the tribe was even suspected of child pornography, the elders dispatched a couple of the bigger warriors to visit his cave while he was sleeping, drop a large rock on his head, and throw his body in the bog. Nowadays, there is due process, appeals, a jury system, and merely imprisonment.
But make no mistake: It was wrong then, wrong now, and will be wrong in the future.