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Yes I am sure Josesph Goebbels used similar language.

Come on Herr Rudd - reign in your book burning Mr Conroy !!

Remember its ANZAC day soon - Conroy is "the type of politician" our grandparent's era fought to keep out of Australia.

cbanhidycbanhidy April 13th, 2010
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The vilest evil is that which is convinced of its own virtue, Mr. Conroy. The Internet needs to remain unregulated precisely so that those who seek to oppose authoritarian regimes can do so. I'm sure you have in mind the desire to "protect" people, but quite aside from the fact that we can make up our own minds, there is the issue that future governments may well abuse your filter to stifle political debate - if that's not what you have in mind already. In any event, it is up to the people to make their own choices, and not for the likes of you to make their choices for them. Especially since your choices are coloured by your religious beliefs. Religion and politics do not mix, Mr. Conroy. The last time they did, we ended up with the Inquisition. I, and most other Australians, will not allow you or anyone else to take us down that path again.

MystikanMystikan April 13th, 2010
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How much regulation is too much regulation? Do China regulate their Internet too much? Google thinks so. Is a filter that monitors everything you look at too much? Stephen Conroy doesn't think so. He believes it is only a modest measure.

Ask a Labor politician whether the filter stop the problem. They'll tell you it won't... but it will help address the problem. Then ask them how much it will cost. Not just for tax payers every year, but in terms of business, education and free speech. Do we want to sacrifice all of this for a solution that won't actually stop the problem?

If we have to "regulate" the Internet, let's do it in a smarter way than this.

listen2melisten2me April 13th, 2010
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The thing is Mr Conroy, you say the Internet isn't special, it isn't different, but you want to treat it differently. The Internet or more specifically the HTTP component (of which you are solely focusing on) isn't all that different to walking down the street. I can place my view on a poster in the street or in the form of Graffiti, commit a crime, but you aren't going to mandate that all citizens wear "Filtered Glasses" to prevent them from "accidentally" seeing it.

All this babble about "Protecting the Children" is a complete mis-direction tactic and stepping way into dangerous territory. Tell me Mr Conroy, do you think young children should be allowed to wander the streets alone, with no direction or guidance for the things that they may see in their travels? Didn't think so.

Refused Classification is a much wider scope than "abhorrent" material and using it like that is a page straight out of "Yes Minister!", of which you seem to be using as a guide book. I can safely say in my 16 years of using the internet on a daily basis, I've never come across anything that would cause me mental harm and being that online security is part of my job, sometimes I've had to wander on the darker side for information. To be honest I've been affected by things more in the offline world, as you can't just click the "close" button and make it go away.

techman83techman83 April 13th, 2010
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More political babble & sweet talking from Herr Conroy, the master of spin....
He rolls out a new line every day. The Internet doesn't need do-gooders like this nitwit interfering with what we can view. I am more than capable of making any decision on what to view or read & if necessary...delete. My children are also educated to make their own decisions. They don't need some knuckle head in Canberra making decisions for them.
Stop wasting taxpayers money! Your attempts to convince the population that the Internet needs regulation, to protect the children, is nothing more than a political attempt to control our thought processes & daily browsing, which can & will be bypassed by anyone with no more than a brief introduction to HTTP protocols.
We don't need your political meddling...Herr Conroy.

Keith StylesKeith Styles April 13th, 2010
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This is the start of the new Australian Project Echelon. First you filter, then you censor, then you eavesdrop on users of greylisted material. If your ISP is going to be government compliant to filtering then its time to reinforce internet protocols to encrypt all traffic and resolve addresses in spaces outside of government controls. In one way I hope Herr Rudd gets his censorship in, so that it can spawn a revolution in net traffic privacy. Maybe his next step will be to ban encyption and legistate to control certificates. Dark days.

ptrrssllptrrssll April 13th, 2010
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