ACL notified prior to Conroys filtering announcement. <br><br>Skeeve, any chance you can reach out to these folks and educate them on reality, i think the whole IT community wants to help the children, but someone really needs to educate these folks that Conroys filter is misguided and if anything could be used in future as a mechanism to prohibit freedom of speech, including but not limited to freedom of religious views.<br>
<br>Suppose one day, a future government wants to fully legalize abortion, and they use the filter to stop anti-abortion advertising because its against the law, OR vice verse? Once we go down this path it only can get worse.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/concern-at-lobby-groups-influence-as-christians-get-filter-plan-tip-off/story-e6frgakx-1225894280482">http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/concern-at-lobby-groups-influence-as-christians-get-filter-plan-tip-off/story-e6frgakx-1225894280482</a><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@internode.com.au">newton@internode.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 20/07/2010, at 12:40 PM, Kai wrote:<br>
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> Also doesn't matter that RC isn't in the article, I'm sure he'll probably use the same old socially emotive term "protect the children" to wangle things into the filter, bit by bit. The writing's on the wall. What did ISP's, collectively, decide that could be done to educate people without using mainstream media?<br>
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</div>Interestingly, the "protect the children" rhetoric shouldn't work anymore.<br>
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By sticking to RC, the Government's plan permits all R18+ and X18+ content<br>
without limitation -- which is exactly the kind of content that most parents<br>
have in mind when they consider what it takes to "protect" their children.<br>
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An RC censorship system only targets material which the Government has<br>
decided is "unsuitable for adults."<br>
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So forget about children; The current plan is "cyber safety" aimed at you<br>
and me.<br>
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- mark<br>
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