Comments on: Internet Censorship Clampdown Begins In One Month In Australia

By: J

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:43:30 +0000

I trusted my government, and now I glow in the dark?

By: Saeko

Saeko — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:25:42 +0000

Aaron: “Where the goverment can control our lives at there whim, by using a few fear based words…terrorism is the main one for the last few years. We need to take away your rites to protect you.”

This is about stopping kids under 18 getting porn on their mobile phones, bringing that content in line with movie classifications.

I dare your stupid arse to come up with any angle to that which involves terrorism or your rights.

By: Saeko

Saeko — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:22:03 +0000

A.Bundy: ” Nice freedom you aussies got there. even the Chinese have more freedom than you now! LOL!”

Idiot.

By: SKA

SKA — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:28:45 +0000

There’s no such thing as a free market…. thats what they WANT you to believe. Multi-billion dollar hand outs, tax breaks, nationalization….. that’s called intervention.

No wonder Howard got the boot. Sucks to be Oz.

By: A.Bundy

A.Bundy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:28:25 +0000

Nice freedom you aussies got there. even the Chinese have more freedom than you now! LOL!

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:47:08 +0000

This will just piss off us ‘normal’ people, while the pervs will find another way to bypass the ‘censorship’. Of course this ‘ban’ will be for the masses and not for government personnel and law enforcement.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:33:15 +0000

Yes I read about these laws pre election and the Howard goverment knew nothing about the internet…even Broadband, claiming it was for gamers and porn watchers!
Our so called free market democratic system is in real danger of becoming what the cold war was all about…communism. Where the goverment can control our lives at there whim, by using a few fear based words…terrorism is the main one for the last few years.
We need to take away your rites to protect you. We need to film you where you go to protect you, we need to be able to tap your phone to protect you..
Yer ok.
Seems like the terrorist have won the battle already. wait maybe we should look to our own countries and not the middle east for the real terrorists!

By: aydin

aydin — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:29:49 +0000

what do you expect?
australia has no educational standards. it’s just a place to have fun in the sun.
all the remotely intellectual people emigrate to england or the usa
the government and business are notoriously corrupt…don’t forget it is the homeland of rupert murdoch!
so of course there is no principled, educated opposition

By: Bangfat

Bangfat — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:42:35 +0000

Well said, BlackPlastic. Here here.

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:26:55 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071223-australia-to-enforce-a-ratings-system-on-web-track-users.html

OMG if you are an Australian you will no longer be able to access all those Australian-hosted porn sites like…. um…. er….. well….. um….. nevermind.

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:17:46 +0000

Darq – December 23rd, 2007 | 18:52
“The 4th Reich is on it’s way, only this time you’re the Jews.”

Except there were Jews in Germany.

Have you not noticed the distinct lack of examples of websites this will effect?

The repeated posts from nobody claiming that “oh no this will mean I will no longer be able to see images like this on Austrlian-hosted sites like…. um…. er….. well….. um….. ”

Seriously, if you read PrisonPlanet, what ISN’T like Nazi Germany ?

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:12:07 +0000

Searles – December 23rd, 2007 | 09:03
“Lol. I feel sorry for Australia. What a major blow to everyone.”

I’m an Australian and I feel sorry for gullible Americans who read hysterical articles from PrisonPlanet.

Seriously, was this not in the “good news” section on that website? Compared to the ever pending total enslavement of mankind in concentration camps by the NWO it sounds downright great.

BTW, if a single person here can name a single Australian website they have ever visited for uncensored images of violence, you’re a liar. You haven’t.

There might be a law banning me from eating cheese from Turkjikisan. Much like this, that would effect zero people too.

By: A

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:46:48 +0000

LOL, Mr.X posting another redundant post… BlackPlastic is 100% right… it’s not censorship, unless you wish to label sites like youtube as being censored just because you need to register to view the flagged content…

But as a side note, China actually has something to gain by filtering the internet, ie. steering their consumer population to chinese owned sites… no country wants to play fair with free trade, only the ones that can benefit from it…

By: me007

me007 — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:31:53 +0000

@63, your an idiot! & a well misinformed one at that.

By: cdntcareless

cdntcareless — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:54:43 +0000

@12 Atlas

I would like to think you were right. As commented above (apart from ‘busdriver’) it was little Johnny who pushed this through (students of Aust politics will be aware that his party had an absolute majority in BOTH Houses prior to the election – and still does in the Senate until July 2008) – the man made Genghis Khan look positively Left wing. It is hoped that we (Australians that is) will get a better deal under Rudd, but there is still a worrying trend of increasing Right Wing / orthodox Christian puritanism – it’s what kept Johnny in power for so long (until the ‘don’t really care, they’re all w*****s anyway’ voters kicked JH out). America also shows a disturbing ‘moral majority’ preference – and I keep reading about new PC laws in EU. Seems the ‘let’s dumb everything down’ police are everywhere. Like the article says no-one has problems with banning child porn (well almost no-one) but these things spread to encompass things they were never intended to catch – or things which the proposers never admitted they wanted to catch.