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what kinda koolaid is the aussie government drinking? you would think that in 2009 people would know how the interweb works. tubes, ya know? how can anyone exe

what kinda koolaid is the aussie government drinking? you would think that in 2009 people would know how the interweb works. tubes, ya know? how can anyone exert control over what someone else links to? government forcing you to accept responsibility for what others link to basically chills linking at all. what if you link to a blog which has public commenting and someone then comments with a link to 'censored' materials. where is the list of censored materials? who knows what is censored? how do i know that something is censored and that i should not link to it? this quote was taken from an article linked off the op, ( http://www.itnews.com.au/News/98679,conroy-requests-faith-in-net-filter-scheme.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/98679,conroy-requests-faith-in... ): "Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has urged detractors of the Government's proposed Internet Filtering scheme to have faith in their elected parliamentarians to pass the right legislation." here is a news flash: stop censoring! then i wont have to worry about elected parliamentarians passing the right legislation. this is like right out of a tolstoy novel or something.

jonny_noog 17y ago
what kinda koolaid is the aussie government drinking? Let me try and explain what koolaid they're drinking: I believe the real reason the Australian Government is pushing this plan so hard in spite of massive opposition from industry and the general public is they need support from a couple of minor party/independent senators in order to pass basically any controversial legislation. These senators represent social conservative special interest groups who have strong objections to things like gambling and adult (legal) pornography. In this case, we're talking about the online versions of these things. It has little do to with protecting the children (that's just the cover) or anything else other than good old political manoeuvring. The whole situation is probably not helped by the fact that the current left-wing Australian Government is by and large, about as conservative as you can get and still be called left-wing. But I think it's mainly that they need support from outside their own party if they really want to get anything done.
- froo 17y ago
  they need support from outside their own party if they really want to get anything done. I thought Rudd had already broken the record for most time spent overseas for any PM in Australia's history.... Seems like he's getting plenty done[1]. Oh wait, you mean getting stuff done in the country? Nevermind. [1] - for those who don't know, our current PM was elected after it was brought to light he used a tax payer funded overseas trip to visit a strip club in New York. Since becoming PM, he has spent more time overseas than any other Australian PM in history...

jonny_noog 17y ago

what kinda koolaid is the aussie government drinking? Let me try and explain what koolaid they're drinking: I believe the real reason the Australian Government is pushing this plan so hard in spite of massive opposition from industry and the general public is they need support from a couple of minor party/independent senators in order to pass basically any controversial legislation. These senators represent social conservative special interest groups who have strong objections to things like gambling and adult (legal) pornography. In this case, we're talking about the online versions of these things. It has little do to with protecting the children (that's just the cover) or anything else other than good old political manoeuvring. The whole situation is probably not helped by the fact that the current left-wing Australian Government is by and large, about as conservative as you can get and still be called left-wing. But I think it's mainly that they need support from outside their own party if they really want to get anything done.

froo 17y ago
they need support from outside their own party if they really want to get anything done. I thought Rudd had already broken the record for most time spent overseas for any PM in Australia's history.... Seems like he's getting plenty done[1]. Oh wait, you mean getting stuff done in the country? Nevermind. [1] - for those who don't know, our current PM was elected after it was brought to light he used a tax payer funded overseas trip to visit a strip club in New York. Since becoming PM, he has spent more time overseas than any other Australian PM in history...