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Saturday, 20 December 2008 @ 12:38 pm
And now the federal government is trying to censor the internet with some massive filter imposed all ISPs. This is absolute bullshit and deprives Australia rights of freedom in a sense. We can't view the content we want, they're even going to lengths such as blocking off certain social networking sites and blogs glorifying "unwanted content". That's right, even blogs.
A funny thing came up a while ago, a picture of Senator Stephen Conroy (Minister of Broadband and Communications), was actually blocked because it apparently was portrayed as "erotic" by the filter. This brings up a level of humility, curiosity, and reliability in the mandatory filter. If they even blocked their own Senator (a joke?), what other kinds of stuff will they block? Maybe we can't even contact people overseas if certain international strains come in.
Honestly, I don't think anyone can believe that Labor would actually do something like this to us. Everyone deserves freedom whether it be a degree of little to anything. We should get a say in this rather than just impose such an act after being voted into power. Although it has always been on their agenda since they came into power, this kind of shit will not be tolerated.
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