We need a government internet filter why?

Although this topic is a little off the boil at the moment, I have to ask myself just what is the implications of this half baked grab by a group of well meaning but basically ignorant politicians. The internet in this country is basically hardly out of the stone age. We have significant problems with speed and pricing. Now in a sleigh of hand move our politicians want us to look the otherway while they censor the internet.

I personally have an abhorrence of censorship. Nothing good ever came out of government censorship, and the recent statements by the minister responsible that it works well in china leave me terrified that the internet that we have all grown to love could be on it's last legs. Ok, they tell us now that all they want to do is get rid of illegal content. That we have to protect the children. But the question begs, that there is currently a blacklist of websites managed by our censors the sites on that list are NOT available for public examination. What is to stop this apparently well meant save the kiddies project from getting out of control. Who will police the process and most importantly of all. Are not adults capable of doing their own censorship?

What qualifies for a ban on this proposed net filter. If I look through my recent news I find examples of schools that are determined to teach creationism. It is possiblr that either the proponents of creationism or those of evolution may hold sway. Is it reasonable that either of these topics suddenly dissapear from our internet screens? This is the power that internet filtering places in the hands of the censor. God help us if family first ever get the controls of this filter. the net will be a very puritanical place indead.

Why have a blog?

I am not really sure why I created this blog, other than I am sick of the news that I receive every day and feel that I am starting ti live in a totalitarian state. My answer to that is to create a blog in which I can vent on the apparently silly and plain dangerous events that are happening in my world. I don't really expect this will change anything, but I hope that it will give me an outlet to vent about some of the really crap ideas that are being pushed on to me by people that are sure I need to be protected from the world at large and myself in particular.

So this is my protest at the touchy feely wankers that are now running Australia and it would appear my life.