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David Heath
Tuesday, 15 December 2009 19:03
If it isn't already obvious, I am angry, nay very angry, about the government's decision to proceed with the nanny-filter. Let me explain.
A long time ago, Senator Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, announced that his government would investigate the possibility of an Internet filter that would keep the Labor Party in power protect the children from the nasties on the Internet (He claimed that we all voted for this particular policy at the last Federal Election).
We all laughed.
A little later the Senator asked Australia's ISPs to help with a trial of the various filtering technologies.
We all laughed again.
Today, the laughing stopped. Enex Testlab, the appointed evaluation consultants delivered their report and Senator Conroy announced that the filter would become law in the new year.
The problems with this idea are so numerous that it would numb the mind of any sensible person to list them all.
However, let's try.
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