 |
Big brother filter plan insults parents
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
Underlying the Rudd Government’s plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online.
Adult supervision should be front and centre of the effort to improve online safety, a responsibility accepted by most parents, grandparents, teachers and carers. But the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to think differently: filtering content at internet service provider level is “central to the Government’s plan to make the internet a safer place for children”.
There is no technological substitute for adult supervision and it’s irresponsible and misleading to infer otherwise. Mandating a so-called “clean feed” has the potential to create a dangerous false sense of security, leading parents to believe ongoing supervision and vigilance is no longer needed.
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
The minister must start listening to the experts, who have repeatedly made the point that most predatory risks to children lurk in those areas of the online world this kind of filtering will do little to combat. Technical advice suggests chat rooms, email and peer-to-peer networks are the most dangerous. Law enforcement agencies around the world have revealed that pedophiles use peer-to-peer networks to exchange explicit videos and images outside the world wide web.
Experts have also shown how the techno-savvy can use various techniques – including encryption – to bypass filters, leaving web sites you would expect to be blocked, open for all to see.
The most powerful and effective weapon against illegal behaviour online is the same as that for illegal behaviour in the real world: sophisticated law enforcement. The successful operation against a child pornography network by the Australian Federal Police late last year, which resulted in more than 20 arrests, demonstrates that.
Prison
Planet.tv Members Can Watch
Fall Of The Republic
Right Now Online -
Don't Miss Out! Get
Your Subscription Today!
CANCER CONSPIRACY? Are
"they" suppressing the cure? Will YOU
be the next victim? Learn
the Secret Truth! - READ FULL STORY
-
- Social bookmarks
- Email this article
-
- Print this page
January 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Australians are dumb as f---. Very much unfortunately. I am Australian and get infuriated that the average Aussie can’t even contemplate politics, absolutely no idea where money comes from or its importance. 9/11 an inside job, Aussies don’t even know what an inside job is. All we care about is our own monkey sphere. We will be whistling Waltzing Matilda all the way to slavery. And when we get there we will think that it is great.
Wez the Aussie Reply:
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 am
Unfortunately, you are right. The people I work with, remind me of what Morpheus said to Neo,”The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it”. I had a guy who I work with tell me that I’m an idiot, because I study what is going on in the world. The truth to him is propaganda. It is truly disturbing to see, how totally and utterly ignorant, the people are around me, very disturbing.
fort1 Reply:
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:30 am
This regards every nation Bob, Australians are no exception!
A change is brought by elites, never by the masses. Masses will protest only in case, when they live relatively well and then suddenly their living conditions deteriorate.
But even then the masses are led by some kind of elite.
Wez the Aussie, thank you for the very appropriate quote…
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:52 am
Hitler wrote about this in his book. Say you are doing something to protect the children and people will accept all types of oppression and loss of liberties. Stephen Conroy is human trash, we have put together a massive petition against this and he has basically said go take a flying leap. SO, to Kevin Rudd and Stephen “piece of s---” Conroy, HEIL HITLER !!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 am
I am now flat out, downloading all the documentaries I can, before it’s too late. Bigpond said they were not going to be part of the internet filtering trial, but I am having a lot of trouble, getting to a lot of 911 truth sites, that I never used to have trouble with.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 am
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A Heinlein
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 am
All Aussies have alot of growing up to do. Radio shock jocks such as Spoonman and the like are clearly on the payroll, and will try their hardest for the masters to squash the competion coming from the internet.