Australia Proposes New Internet Regulations Limiting What Users Can See
[What's America's limit?]
BEWARE OF GOVERNMENTS BEARING REGULATIONS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT DECIDING WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU
Loss of freedoms usually begin with the following prescription.
“It for your own good”.
Australia is no different. In spite of critics who charge that it’s a regulation of their freedom and, like most government programs, won’t work the way it’s intended.
From Australian government to introduce Internet filter:
The [Australian] government said Tuesday it will introduce legislation next year for the filter system to help protect Australians, especially children, from harmful material on the Internet. Critics say it will not prevent determined users from sharing such content, and could lead to unwarranted censorship by overzealous officials.
The report goes on to say that the mandatory system would make Australia “one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world’s democracies.”
Dubious honor.
Governments take away your freedoms with a smile–and an iron fist. It’s easier that way.
Those slower on the uptake won’t catch on until they sign onto their computers one day and can’t find what they were looking for.
By then, it’s too late.
Communication Minister Stephen Conroy said the government would be transparent in compiling its blacklist of Web sites, but did not give details.
Of course not.
Governments also promise “transparency”–usually behind closed doors or without those annoying “details”.
It’s much easier to prevent government from taking away your freedom and liberty than to recover them.
That’s a useful thing to keep in mind, whether the issue being debated is a health care plan with jail time for the non-compliant or proposed Internet restrictions being proposed by “regulation czar” Cass Sunstein.
The government will go only as far as it is allowed.
Politically or otherwise.
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i think everybody is fed up with government interferance
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