Re: Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jamie Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Anyway, I for one don't mind the Gov't filtering out child porn and all the
>> other crap that tries to get my attention.
>>
>> There is so much good stuff out there that I can fill my mind with that
>> rather than the lowest common denominator crud.
>
> You should be allowed to opt into such a scheme, or I should be able
> to opt out of one.

Precisely.

In the history of the world, government censorship almost always
begins with what seems to be relatively reasonable, harmless
exclusions, at the time.  However, it is extraordinarily rare for
anyone's government to ever stop at that.  Once you create this bar,
it's oh-so-easy to nudge it just a little, now and then... and no one
will notice but the hippies and university students, right?  One day,
some government stiff decides that breasts are obscene, and just like
that, you are cut off from half the world.

Tess
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