Filtered Internet for 70% of web users under government deal

"child pornography" is always the first excuse. The next level of censorship will add just another thin layer so as not to arouse angst with the public such as chemistry related information "just in case" teenagers get the wild idea to make firecrackers. Layer by thin layer censorship will choke off reality. Finally all information outing the criminal behaviour of central banking and their bed partner in politic's and mainstream media will be off limits for the sake of "national security". Wake up people, the water is quickly warming in the frying pan...

Here's a good pre-election suggestion for Julia, how about you delay the internet filter until 3011 !

yes - lets hide this away until after the election. We can pretend its gone away and buy a few votes and then screw everyone over once we are voted back in.

Well, this is one way for me to save money. Optus will lose me as a customer after more then 8 years.

Sell outs are all they are.

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.” - Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf.

#10 While your intentions are good, it helps not to use fake quotes. Yes, it's fake. Google it.

1. The internet filter seems like one of those 'stupid' things that politicians get involved in. We should all know by now that any filters can be bypassed by a variety of methods. So why devote time, money and resources to this when only the most technically naive people think it will have some effect on child porn distribution?

2. Give or take, the people proposing this filtering infrastructure are <not> stupid. They <know> it won't work on specific targets like child porn and that these groups will just work around it, quite possibly using methods that will be harder to detect and trace.

So, given 1 and 2, why? I'm sure there are plans to expand this in the future, it's just a wedge. Nothing else makes sense. Please oppose it.

I will be dumping Optus then and I will vote Libs and they are not any better, If Conroy really wanted to do anything about abuse of children he would be calling the pope and telling him to stand down and all his paedophile mates he covered for that he still lets preach the word of god. If Conroy was so worried he would complain about the child brides the Islamic countries allow, these are real time abuses that go on, that all this hot air from these holy rollers allow and we do business with, the mans a joke. Put more police on the chat rooms Watch and set up people on the p2ps track down where these child porn sites are and get the country they are in involved. They let these radical Islamic dirt bags into our country just so they can censor and dig into our privacy to enable the government and police to have more power and control us mother us censor us, these are the same people who believe in a fairy tale god who created the world in seven days some 10,000 years ago bloody morons aboriginals have been in Australia for 40,000 years these twits run our country and dictate what we do and believe in the tooth fairy. I will be glad to see them ban their dumb ass religions instead of free speech because that is what they will do it start with child porn as an excuse but where is the mandatory sentencing for the crime of abusing a child, no the bloody judges let them off light and why! The filter is a cover for their inaction against the child abusers, starts for one thing and then another, just like all the new power the government and police have because of terrorism but they let the buggers in here, just like they let the heads of their belief and government bodies abuse children and that is all because cover up! just like when you filter information or stop whistle blowers.

I wonder how many customers those telcos will lose.

Not many, I think. Let's face it, most won't even notice that they are being censored. I mean, they can't be very intelligent or they wouldn't be with Big Pond in the first instance.

Hasn't Conroy (and his mate Julia) got it through their dense craniums that filtering out child abuse websites will achieve absolutely nothing because there are NO child abuse websites to filter out? If there were, the owners would be instantly busted by law enforcement.

Those politician clowns don't have a clue about how the internet works because if they did, this idiotic idea would never have been proposed. It's just a total waste of money and resources aimed at getting votes from the technically ignorant religious right.

Like so many others, this time around my vote will go to the Greens and not Labor.

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