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Fight to filter out evil leaves bad guys to do their worst

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Fight to filter out evil leaves bad guys to do their worst

FROM: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/ ... -v4cq.html

RICK FENELEY
May 15, 2010

Buried in the budget papers - not this week's beige bundle but the Rudd government's first effort in 2008 - is an ugly set of numbers. Small numbers, but ugly. The Coalition had boosted funding to the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team, a unit of the Australian Federal Police.

But now New Labor was quietly giving this team of paedophile hunters a $2.8 million haircut. Kevin Rudd and his Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, apparently reckoned it would be better spent on an internet filter.

With $44 million, they would take on the world wide web and create a ''clean feed''. They would impose their filter on the net's greatest horrors: images of child abuse, rape, bestiality. They would block instruction manuals for terrorists and criminals. The RuddCon filter. The rabbit-proof, or gerbil-proof, firewall.

Experts knew they might as well take a tea-strainer to Warragamba Dam to filter Sydney's water, but Rudd and Conroy wouldn't listen.

Alastair MacGibbon is a former federal cop and founding director of the AFP's high tech crime centre. MacGibbon, also founder of the Internet Safety Institute, took to the stage this week as part of the IQ2

Australia debate on the proposition: ''Governments should not censor the internet.'' MacGibbon argued against this proposition. He reckons governments should have some role - he kept stressing some - in censoring the net. Conroy was invited to be on the same debating team but it was budget night, so he withdrew. Wise move.

MacGibbon wanted to get one thing straight about the government's proposed clean feed. ''I, for one, am not a supporter. It will not work.'' MacGibbon's teammates agreed. None had a kind word for the RuddCon compulsory filter on internet service providers.

So what would the filter protect us from? This is tricky because the government's blacklist is secret. We are not allowed to know what we will not be allowed to see. A publicised list would be an advertisement for clever-geek perverts, or curious kids.

We do know it will be no net nanny. It will not even attempt, for now, to block the streams of porn between consenting adults, with which many kids are familiar. For the past couple of months Conroy has been harping on about 355 child porn sites that would be blocked. That number is certainly obsolete. Child porn peddlers are shifty, usually communicating peer-to-peer, under the radar of any filter. They're also adept at moving pages around the web to avoid detection. (Think of the poor tuckshop consultant who discovered she was placed on the blacklist - without so much as a phone call - because a hacker created a child porn page on her website.)

Then there is the legal stuff that RuddCon would block. Anything refused classification (RC) goes on the blacklist. One example: a video game called Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, in which our heroes use spray cans to resist a tyrannical regime. With graffiti. It was rated MA15+ until the Queensland Local Government Association appealed to make it RC because it might incite an illegal act. Not insurrection, graffiti.

At this point, it's OK for our little darlings to commit carjackings, sell drugs and assassinate people on Grand Theft Auto but not to create virtual graffiti. Absurdly, Australia has no R18+ rating for computer games, so anything ruled unsuitable for children becomes RC - and would be blocked by the RuddCon filter.

What film, manual or political cause might creep on to the secret blacklist once this law is passed? Check out the website of Electronic Frontiers Australia, the relentless volunteers who have exposed the folly of the filter. It won't protect kids. It will not do parents' work for them. It is no clean feed. It's a dirty con.


EDs Note: Trouble is, as soon as we sack this government and put the opposition in. They will still do this to us anyway. Or at the very best, put it on the back burner, and start passing on another list of New World Order agendas. The problem is, our Governments DO NOT RUN OUR COUNTRIES... They take orders from powerful secret organisations.

I still want to believe in Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party. I really do feel there is A LOT of good people amongst them, who would do WONDERS for this country if "THEY" only let them. But if Labor pushed it to hard, would be sacked overnight.

Were as I find the Liberals, EVIL in their ignorance. The upper-crust "Toffie-noses" the "so-called" educated ones, from the private schools. The spoilt rich kids. Educated like "parrots" with propaganda. Incapable of a SINGLE original thought. Treasonous prostitutes, forever eager to do the bidding of the multi-national's, at the expence of the people....And I find the working class who believe the Liberal Party lies eighter ignorant and low IQ, OR people who's lives are too busy to have the time to look deeply onto the news and all the latest issues.

Personally, I would like to see the Liberals OUT! They don't even make a good opposition. Even the opposition should be working for the 'common good" of this great land Australia. But it would not matter what Kevin Rudd said Liberal would disagree and oppose him every step of the way. Liberal has become a bunch of IDIOTS, lying Ass-holes.

I feel a good opposition should still be able to "work in" for the good of the country.

Personally, I feel; "IF" we have to have a two party system (us and them? thats how "THEY" divide and conquer) I would like to see Labour and the Greens the major players in the scenario. Liberal, like for God's sake people, stop believing their lies!

Labor needs serious "Tweeking"... I can still say this even though this recent censorship policy is going to DIRECTLY affect me. YET AGAIN my Government is about to put me out of business, send me broke and throw me into poverty.

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