Australia is proposing a nationwide Internet censorship system. This is what I sent to the party in response.
Dear Minister Chairman,
May I firstly congratulate you on your proposed waste of public Australian funds on a nationwide filtering system that will reduce internetworking performance internationally for all Australians and conversely non-Australians conducting internetworking transactions with Australian business, and secondly for your attitude that the internet should be cleansed so that it is suitable for 5 yr olds.
I would like to point out that business transactions (which are the principal reason for Australia’s investment in the National Broadband Network) on the internet are conducted by people who are older than 5. Introducing a censorship scheme that is this vast in nature introduces immense responsibility that government cannot be trusted with. When presented with an easy opportunity to limit information that is potentially damaging to you what would you chose to do? I wish to offer my own expansionist thoughts for the proposal, and suggest that you should consider changing Australia’s name to Kruddgrad.
When you propose the cleansing of the internet so that only material fit for 5 year olds is allowed through (and I do realise that yes news sites will be available as long as you haven’t banned them although the news is pretty shocking these days, what with murders and car smashes and whatnot, you might want to sort that out too), you risk seriously damaging the intellectual capability of those of us who are tucked behind your proposed firewall. You will block 10’s of thousands of legitimate web sites that will be erroneously labelled as illicit by your proposal. Even then there will be ways around your proposed system, I won’t detail them because after-all you are the minister supporting this project, you can’t be trusted with that kind of information. While the world chastises China for its restrictive controls on net freedom and dissenting opinion, why are you implementing elements of a communist state in Australia?
I propose that instead of re-affirming my opinion of Australia (and thereby yourself) as the ‘Global Village Idiot’ the better option is that you re-enforce the message that parents should be watching their children’s internet usage, that won’t cost $125Mil, and it might actually encourage parenting skills, which this legislation will not address. The rest of us grown up’s are old enough to make our own decisions without your interference and your thinly veiled attempt to curtail the freedom of information in this country in a digital age using the most ineffective methods available.
I wish to offer my warmest disregards,
K0rs0
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