[AusNOG] Why No Form Of Censorship Is A Good Thing

[Phillip Grasso]

ACL notified prior to Conroys filtering announcement.

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.

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.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/concern-at-lobby-groups-influence-as-christians-get-filter-plan-tip-off/story-e6frgakx-1225894280482



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Mark Newton <newton at internode.com.au>wrote:

>
> On 20/07/2010, at 12:40 PM, Kai wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Interestingly, the "protect the children" rhetoric shouldn't work anymore.
>
> By sticking to RC, the Government's plan permits all R18+ and X18+ content
> without limitation -- which is exactly the kind of content that most
> parents
> have in mind when they consider what it takes to "protect" their children.
>
> An RC censorship system only targets material which the Government has
> decided is "unsuitable for adults."
>
> So forget about children;  The current plan is "cyber safety" aimed at you
> and me.
>
>  - mark
>
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