The government wants to introduce an internet filter scheme - this is crazy as internet speeds will plunge as content is verified. Australian speeds and costs of the internet are already substandard and the filter will just exacerbate the situation.
The filter will be promoted as saving children from paedophiles - it won't! But if it is thought that a filter will work, then other known paedophile environments should also be banned, catholic priests and brothers could be de-frocked. In fact, the success of police in rooting out child molesters has been because of their sophisticated data mining activities, desperate people resort to desperate measures to indulge the deviance, if they are not traceable ... well, who knows what they might do!
Further, once one excuse for a filter is let through, then who is to say that other "worthwhile" reasons to prevent access to information will not be invoked. Political parties and their ideas might be banned like the countries whose policies we abhor.
Beware of politicians who want to restrict peoples' information - it is primarily for their benefit - not ours!
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