[H-GEN] New Coalition policy: internet and smartphone filters

[Benjamin Fowler]

On 5 September 2013 12:32, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 21:24 +1000, James Mills wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Russell Stuart <
> russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
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>  Nice how it came after the media blackout.  But there is no internet
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>   blackout.  This thread on the subject started about at about 5 PM:
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>   http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2151781
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> So far 800 posts in 3 hours.  It was noticed:
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>   http://www.abc.net.au/news/4939156
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>  Just wanted to chime in and say this is an outrage!
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>  My local members are going to hear about this!
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>  You can guess who I'm not voting for this weekend!
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> much panic over nothing, Turnbull has since said there is no such beast,
> they will "encourage" parents to once in their life be responsible for
> their own kids
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So you deny them, that a half-arsed opt-out filter will lull parents
(especially those unfamiliar with the limitations of filtering technology)
into a false sense of security?

Advocating opt-out filters does little to encourage parents to take
responsibility if anything, it encourages complacency and laziness

And here I was, thinking that encouraging laziness was anathema to
conservatives.

Reminds me of the old Joseph Fouché quote: "it was worse than a crime; it
was a mistake".

cheers, Ben.
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