Net filter to block only restricted content

Policy? What's that?

With the way that Senator Conroy makes different (often false and misleading) claims every time he opens his mouth, how is anyone supposed to know what is actually being proposed?

Restricted content?

So if Sen. Conroy is only interested in blocking restricted content, why is 70% of the block list legal content that could be purchased in any adult shop?

Why can't Conroy base his filter on a brand new list, with clearly defined rules (illegal activity only) and why can't he also talk about judicial oversight and proper checks and balances?

The reason is that to go in that direction would expose his real agenda - to pander to the Christian (sex is dirty) view of the world and their agenda to save our souls by preventing us from viewing smut.

Idiot Conroy

The economy is going down the toilet and people are losing their jobs but we have an imbecile for a communications minister that is putting his effort into blocking websites.

This hypocrite moron is a joke all over the world!

Never vote for Labour!

How would we know?!

"It goes against the tenants of the Labor Party to block political [material]," Conroy said on the ABC's Q&A program. (I presume he meant "tenets")

So, if the ACMA/Classification board's process of banning URL's is secret and has no oversight, how would we really know that they're not blocking political content? Should we just take his word for it?

Thanks to Wikileaks we know that the current blacklist already contains innocuous links, and would be considered as "overblocking". And this is with only a relatively small list of URL's managed by humans.
We also know from the governments own reports from previous internal trials of filtering software that there is a small percentage that WILL be overblocked.
So with software automatically filtering the whole of the Internet, even a small percentage WILL result in thousands of overblocked pages.

The whole thing is ridiculous and should be ditched ASAP. Wanna make a difference for the kiddies Conroy? Give your budgeted money for this stupid idea to the AFP to go hunt down the net-nasties.

Thanks for the free sites

Labour will never get my vote again..... Democracy my butt!

Government spends Money Making List Of Worst Of Worst Internet Sites. List Gets Leak As Of Course It Would.
%40 Increase in Traffic to Sites on the list over night. The Government and any proposed filter has and is going to make this worst.

Our tax payer dollars at work anit it grand :(
How can we call ourselves a Democratic nation?? This is a complete affront to democracy!

Article 30.
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Article 30.

* Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

His lips are moving

We all know how to tell when a politician is lying.

So Conjob says it is against the "tenants" of the ALP to seek to suppress opposing political positions? Gee, who woulda thought it.

And does anybody think little Kevvie would pass up a juicy opportunity like this to ban alternate public voices? And in the meantime he'll try to reap votes from the well meaning but ignorant who are naive enough to think that The Filter will actually do what Conjob claims.

one word BULLSH1T

I hope others realise that Refused Classification material is a euphemism for censorship of all types. The police in Queensland called a cartoon of Bart and Lisa engaging in sexual activity - a drawing- was Child Pornography.

Then we get the Police in Victoria saying photography in public places in the Bushfire zones was "INAPPROPRIATE" and will be Stopped. Photography under assault by State and Federal governments because some people are "offended" by other people's freedom of expression and movement.

Refused Classification material includes:
-X Rated pornography (widely available to EVERYONE who lives in a Western Democracy OUTSIDE Australia, such as European countries, of France, Germany, and all the rest including the USA and many developing nations)

- Adult rated video games (R Rated or X Rated) are Banned Outright.

- All works of Fiction will be banned from the net

This is a small taste of what this filter means. yes, all of the above conditions, currently APPLY TO US WHEN WE WALK OUTSIDE in our Own Country!

We live in the worst freedom oriented Western Democracy in the world, Europe and the USA are laughing at us, that is 500 million white people at least who have freedoms far exceeding our own. And Why? Because the bubble that has been created in this country has warped people into believing they are free when they are not.

What a Conjob

The first point here is that Conjob will not be around for ever (despite what he thinks in his wet dreams) so who knows what his successor will choose to blacklist.
The second point here is his massive hypocrisy. I read about the perfect example just today - a Bill Henson fan site was blacklisted but has now been given the green light. So according to Conjob child porn is to be blacklisted, as long as it is not Bill Henson's child porn.
For those who do not know Henson is a photographer known for taking photos of naked children in the name of "art" and last year an art gallery displaying his "art" was raided and shut down by police. Of course all his paedophile friends rallied and the case was thrown out of court.

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