Originally Posted by thorevenge

And this is what you get from a party that was so long in Opposition that it thought it knew best but knew nothing.

Like the National Broadband Network, the 5 point plan to reduce inflation (did anyone actually catch what those 5 points were), downward pressure on grocery and fuel prices - all these silly ideas that were all fluff and are doomed to failure.

Now I am not boosting the Liberals but I have to ask myself - with policies like this and the claim of a mandate to force things like this through Parliament I have to wonder - wasn't it better the devil you knew?

Originally Posted by Lilith

Just tonight my daughter asked me to help her find out when rowing was first contested at the Olympics. She said there was a "problem" with google at the school as it wasn't able to show any results. I asked her what she typed in. She tried "History Olympics". Near the top is the wikipedia entry.

Oh no! It talks about drugs in sport.....

So I did the project with her, printed off the relevant pages and she'll take them to school.

Her primary teacher said the internet "doesn't work properly" at school and you have to do "things like this" at home.

Pffffft!

I suggested I attach the pages as pdfs and email them to her school account so everyone could share our research. Then I thought: what a bloody stupid idea. Everyone knows the DET email system has never worked properly.

Originally Posted by w3twilly

All I want to know is where is the media ?
I sent a letter to Lateline about this ... nothing.
I sent a email to Get Up the group that is meant to fight for everything. No ties to any party.
Nothing, not even we will look into it.
I gave up really about 3 months ago, as it seems like no one cares if their liberty is taken away.

Originally Posted by flemsha

I doubt the public at large really care too much to be honest, and so the media aren't likely to give it too much air time. I mean cutting speed off the internet is a geek issue and a geek issue alone (or at least that is the perception).

Here's how a debate would go in parliament:
"I oppose the nation-wide content filter" - opposition member
"So you are for exposing our children to the evils of the internet" - government minister
"Uhhhh..."

Unfortunately the marginal seats are in the suburbs where young families with young kid's are, and they are the people whose votes matter.

Originally Posted by flemsha

Unfortunately the marginal seats are in the suburbs where young families with young kid's are, and they are the people whose votes matter.

Originally Posted by decryption

The fact that being against this can be interpreted into "you hate children and working families" is what is preventing high level debate on the topic.

Originally Posted by dotnet

I never understood Labor's preoccupation with working families. Isn't it the dysfunctional families that need the most help?

Cheers
Steffen.

Originally Posted by decryption

Nick Xenophon is probably going to be in favour of it - his opinions on the ABC's Q&A show he's just as ignorant and "family centric"

Originally Posted by w3twilly

All I want to know is where is the media?

Originally Posted by zizdodrian

Grassroots Campaign? Anybody?

*sigh*

Everything seems so futile.

Originally Posted by mwot

SafeSquid are apparently developing/have developed an enterprise server based application that filters out porn based on images. if brought to the consumer market, and with a bit more tweaking, this i think would be a much better option for the government to back.

from what i gather, this would mean no building of white/black lists, etc. i assume it would still slow down the user's connection while the algorithm is being performed, but means it is back on individual PCs rather than the ISP level.