Comments on: You Have Every Right To Be Angry: The Government Wants To Kill The Internet

By: peter

peter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:37:21 +0000

Cmon guys wake up to what is REALLY going on here.. Rudd,Conroy and their cronies are not simply just trying to stamp out filth,paedophilia etc…They are intent on ensuring that any site that may…in any way whatsoever..appear to them as unsuitable, to be immediately removed from the web.. Consider for instance members of the Euthanasia society… They are already muzzled by the threat of huge fines if found discussing euthanasia on any electronic device,or emailing aspects of their beliefs.. Now their site is to be banned absolutely simply because of religious cranks and ‘ Right to life’ groups… Where will this all end.. Soon it will be an offence to be heard to fart in a public place.. Rudd and his cohort are establishing an extremely dangerous precedent by attempting to suppress free speech..

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:23:37 +0000

What a disgusting invasion of privacy this filter is!! Americans in their country would immediately declare that it's unconstitutional. This filter is stepping all over our freedom of choice!

Aussies already spend 30-150 bucks a month for internet in their homes. And now the internet will be slowed by up to 80%? Shameful!! And what about Australian businesses that rely on the public to access their sites on the web? Must they suffer as well?

The most annoying part of all of this is that we are not allowed to know which sites are being blocked. Yeah, child pornography is evil. But what about the other sites? Terrorism? Ok, fair enough. But what else?

I reckon the government is going ahead and blocking adult websites, you know, the ones that are actually legal. And that's abusing our rights as citizens of this country. It's our choice to view adult material - how dare they take that choice from us!

Rudd is going to face a serious backlash as a result of this disgusting moral policing campaign!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:44:10 +0000

this is fucking disgusting!

how dare that fucking government of ours tell us what we can do with our internet connection that we pay for!?!?

For staters, they already owe us faster internet, considering the amount we pay for it!! Countries like France and Japan have the fastest net around, while our dictatorship government is sending us backwards? this makes no fucking sense!

To be honest, if this government of ours starts to slow down our net, and filter certain content, then im fucking moving overseas no questions asked! because if they get this to work successfully, they would pretty much have us all obeying their every fucking command.

mind my swearing, but this is beyond a joke! this really makes me angry and ashamed to be an Australian citizen. Rudd... what a disgrace

By: Jace1000

Jace1000 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:32:24 +0000

this is going to slow down the already snail-like “broadband” connection we all pay for (through the noses i might add). We pay the most and receive the worst … Why is Australia moving backwards?

By: Putto

Putto — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:12:27 +0000

I lived in the United Arab Emirates for a year which have internet filtering in place all i can say its a f-ck-n head ache and pain in the a#s for all the reasons mentioned above!

By: BJ

BJ — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:59:16 +0000

Hmmm, well my local federal member is Mr. K Rudd. I question how much my voice is heard when it will only be read and dealt with by office clerks.

By: Nick Broughall

Nick Broughall — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:02:06 +0000

@pd – the obvious point you seem to be missing here is that there are free filtering programs that let parents filter the internet for their children. The Howard Government spent about $90 million on one last year, both on the product and the advertising, and it was a dismal failure.

Why was it a dismal failure? There are many arguments, but the fact it was hacked by a 16 year old within 30 minutes is probably the biggest.

Introducing ISP level filtering will not work. It won't stop pedophiles at all. They'll simply switch to programs like Bittorrent or MSN to target youngsters and share their filth. Meanwhile, your local child photography studio's website has been incorrectly blocked by an automated filter, and not only do they lose potential customers, but their name is tarnished by the fact they were blocked at all.

No, this whole plan is doomed to fail. If you want to protect your kids, supervision is still the best option. If you want a more technological approach, why not check out a personal filter for your own PC. But don't argue that destroying the net for everyone is the best course of action when it clearly isn't.

By: micky

micky — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:12:26 +0000

how about a coordinated flaming campaign or maybe getting all ISPs to stop net traffic for period of time (12 hours) to draw attention to the issue.. might be some legal issues with that one.
how many phone calls/snail mail/email @ the same time would it take to clog the system ?!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:59:26 +0000

Wow, I want to move from this shit hole communist of a country.

By: zamboge

zamboge — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:21:20 +0000

Make yourself heard and make a suggestion to GetUp to make it one of their campaign’s. The more that make the suggestion the more likely they will pick up the cause:
http://www.getup.org.au/about/contact/