I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of bureaucrats telling me what I can and can't do. My current Bug Bear is the Governments proposed "Clean Feed" internet. ie. Internet Censorship.
If you agree with me, express your concern by joining the petition at http://nocleanfeed.com/
What the government can't wrap their heads around is that even if they introduce this, it can easily be circumvented by using readily available, free, Virtual Private Network (VPN) software, thus rendering the whole system useless and wasting mega-dollars.
The following is a copy of a letter I sent to Senator Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, expressing my opinion and feelings on the proposal:
Just who do you people think you are?
How dare you presume to know what is best for me, my family, my friends or anyone for that matter.
I have had it up to the back teeth with governments at all levels dictating what I should or shouldn’t do, and more importantly what I should think!!!
It has taken longer than he thought, but George Orwell must be laughing in his grave.
I am of course referring to Internet Content Filtering.
So you are going to filter the Internet for illegal and inappropriate content?
Then tell me this, just who is it that is going to determine what is illegal or inappropriate?
Some idiot public servant with a dart board?
The premise of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty. Is the under manned police force to be employed to undertake this task?
How can something be deemed illegal without it being tested in the courts first?
But of course you will probably just put everything under the umbrella of “inappropriate”.
Last time I checked we still lived in a democracy, but it seems I am sadly mistaken.
You just have to look at how the FOI laws are abused by government.
Anytime something that is embarrassing to the government is requested it is refused on the premise that it is a security issue.
We all know our civil liberties are constantly being eroded, and this is another nail in that coffin.
So it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if this plan to filter content was misused and abused to benefit the politicians and public servants of the day.
Used to filter political , religious, ideological, and any alternative points of view that are contrary to the regulator.
This is the sort of thing that we condemn other governments for doing. Think back to the Beijing Olympics. Remember the outcry about internet censorship there? What is the difference? It is a government deciding what information we can and can’t have access to.
The government crows about how they are going to improve broadband in this country with their “National Broadband Plan”.
Lamenting about how vital it is to business and our economy that we have a fast Internet network.
So what is your government planning to do? Hamstring the poor service we already have now, and in the future, with a futile attempt to satisfy your own moral dilemmas by imposing a dictatorial system to what we can access on the internet.
By imposing compulsory filtering you will increase the cost to each and every individual and business using the internet, and worst of all reduce the performance of an already sub-standard service!!!!
This is just a lose, lose situation.
If people are worried about what their kids see or do on the internet, then the answer is simple. SUPERVISE YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!
As far as adults are concerned, we are old enough to look out for ourselves. We don’t need or want the government to do it for us.
I cannot even begin to express my dissatisfaction with the ever increasing government control over every aspect of my life.
I may as well live in cold war Russia or current day China.
I am sure I do not stand alone with these points of view, but I had to make them before they were filtered!!!!!
Seriously you need to stop Kowtowing to the Independent members of parliament and open your eyes and see this for what it is, a blatant attempt to impose someone else's moral standards over everyone.
Iain
If you agree with me, express your concern by joining the petition at http://nocleanfeed.com/
What the government can't wrap their heads around is that even if they introduce this, it can easily be circumvented by using readily available, free, Virtual Private Network (VPN) software, thus rendering the whole system useless and wasting mega-dollars.
The following is a copy of a letter I sent to Senator Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, expressing my opinion and feelings on the proposal:
Just who do you people think you are?
How dare you presume to know what is best for me, my family, my friends or anyone for that matter.
I have had it up to the back teeth with governments at all levels dictating what I should or shouldn’t do, and more importantly what I should think!!!
It has taken longer than he thought, but George Orwell must be laughing in his grave.
I am of course referring to Internet Content Filtering.
So you are going to filter the Internet for illegal and inappropriate content?
Then tell me this, just who is it that is going to determine what is illegal or inappropriate?
Some idiot public servant with a dart board?
The premise of our legal system is innocent until proven guilty. Is the under manned police force to be employed to undertake this task?
How can something be deemed illegal without it being tested in the courts first?
But of course you will probably just put everything under the umbrella of “inappropriate”.
Last time I checked we still lived in a democracy, but it seems I am sadly mistaken.
You just have to look at how the FOI laws are abused by government.
Anytime something that is embarrassing to the government is requested it is refused on the premise that it is a security issue.
We all know our civil liberties are constantly being eroded, and this is another nail in that coffin.
So it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if this plan to filter content was misused and abused to benefit the politicians and public servants of the day.
Used to filter political , religious, ideological, and any alternative points of view that are contrary to the regulator.
This is the sort of thing that we condemn other governments for doing. Think back to the Beijing Olympics. Remember the outcry about internet censorship there? What is the difference? It is a government deciding what information we can and can’t have access to.
The government crows about how they are going to improve broadband in this country with their “National Broadband Plan”.
Lamenting about how vital it is to business and our economy that we have a fast Internet network.
So what is your government planning to do? Hamstring the poor service we already have now, and in the future, with a futile attempt to satisfy your own moral dilemmas by imposing a dictatorial system to what we can access on the internet.
By imposing compulsory filtering you will increase the cost to each and every individual and business using the internet, and worst of all reduce the performance of an already sub-standard service!!!!
This is just a lose, lose situation.
If people are worried about what their kids see or do on the internet, then the answer is simple. SUPERVISE YOUR CHILDREN!!!!!!
As far as adults are concerned, we are old enough to look out for ourselves. We don’t need or want the government to do it for us.
I cannot even begin to express my dissatisfaction with the ever increasing government control over every aspect of my life.
I may as well live in cold war Russia or current day China.
I am sure I do not stand alone with these points of view, but I had to make them before they were filtered!!!!!
Seriously you need to stop Kowtowing to the Independent members of parliament and open your eyes and see this for what it is, a blatant attempt to impose someone else's moral standards over everyone.
Iain
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