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Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
sparky1240 writes "While Americans are currently fighting the net-neutrality wars, spare a thought for the poor Australians — The Australian government wants to implement a nation-wide 'filtering' scheme to keep everyone safe from the nasties on the internet, with no way of opting out: 'Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. ... According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million."
are you for real??? labor is the A typical nanny state supporter. the liberals merely stopped at providing filtering software to people who wanted it. let me guess, you voted for kevin 07 because it was catchy.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
And the economy under Keating was already recovering from a global slump when Howard the coward was elected.
Get your facts straight before you post.
Nonsense. I'm a gun owner but the idea that the private ownership of firearms somehow protects us from our government is the biggest bunch of falsely puffed up ego stroking crap I've ever run into. The government has armies trained in cooperative tactics, armed with fully automatic weapons, squad support weapons, superior communications, tanks, the ability to call in air strikes and artillery, and you think you and I are going to do something about that with our handguns and semi-auto rifles?
And, more to the point, there's a realworld example of why the "guns protect freedom" argument is total nonsense. Iraq. During Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime an Iraqi could walk into a gun shop and buy an AK-47 with the full auto function enabled. By your argument, therefore, Iraq under Saddam should have been a very free place, but you'll note that it wasn't.
Guns are great, I like 'em. But I don't have the need to fool myself and think that somehow I'm a movie superhero boldly protecting freedom from the evil gubment.
What protects us is that the army is made up of citizens who (we hope) believe in freedom, democracy, and (hopefully) take their oath to uphold the Constitution [1] seriously. The army would mutiny if it were ordered to occupy, say, New York City and enforce blatantly anti-Constitutional laws. That is what protects freedom in America. Not my guns, not the promises of politicians, but the simple fact that our army is made up of us.
[1] Note, not to obey the President, but to uphold the Constitution.
"Mission Accomplished" -- George W. Bush May 1, 2003
Censorship is always NOT about you and me. It's only YOU and people like YOU who always make it about your overblown Western personalities.
Censorship it's about society. It's one of the necessary things that all people are unhappy about, but society as a whole is in need of it.
So keep your personal wants and desires for your own family to yourself, they are pretty much off topic.
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