Regardless, I have written an open letter to Stephen Conroy, the honourable member behind the intiative. Let it be known his intentions are good, but in practice his methodology is flawed, and imposing unnecessary (not to mention ineffective) rules upon the lives of ordinary Australians will achieve few, if any, of the aims of the program.
To read my letter to Mr. Conroy, please head on over to Marketing Magazine. If you feel as strongly as I do, please also visit Keep Your Filter Off Our Internet to learn how you can get involved.
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I have just read about this and am outraged! If Australia goes down this path, the precedent will be set for other western liberal democracies to follow suit.
ReplyDeleteI would fear even more for freedoms in "Big Brother" Britain, and elsewhere.
Never has the term "member" been more appropriate.
ReplyDeleteI made this comment on the same topic at http://www.servantofchaos.com ...
ReplyDeleteI have a mate who works at the Broadband Dept and he reckons, last Thursday, they have had about 2000 letters arrive. He anticipates they'll get double that and that's just hard copy letters.
He sees the letters and reckons one actually signed off by saying "oh Yeah Conroy, while you are at it ... drop dead." (Round of applause I reckon).
This whole filter idea is a complete joke. We already have terrible broadband speeds in Australia ... we don't need something that slows it down more.
I agree with the comments about spending the money on an education program. But then again, it's juts like everything else that people complain about - they never take responsibility (case in point: ban junk food ads because a grown adult’s will is no match for a 6yo demanding Maccas … gimme a break).
Oh here is an idea ... maybe full, unfiltered, fast broadband should be means tested. You know, only smart, responsible people should have access to it rather than dead beats who get it because their kid says "all the other kids have it" but then don't monitor their own kids use and then complain because of the content!
Curly, you're right to be outraged. If there is any saving grace, it's that Australia's flawed Internet policies and infrastructure are unlikely to influence other Western nations who will hopefully see it for the flawed setup that it is.
ReplyDeleteStan, that comment is gold =]
Daniel, I'm interested to hear more of your friend's experiences, perhaps you can blog about some of what is happening internally there?
@ David - yeah ok. I play Touch Footy with him but he couldn't play tonight so will start a conversation at training next week.
ReplyDeleteAnybody got any questions they want me to ask him?
Hey DG,
ReplyDeleteLoved the letter, very eloquent summation of what I'm sure a lot of us are feeling. Technicalities of access speed aside it's the concept and the political implications of what they are planning that gets me upset.
Thanks Adam. I think as with most things when it is politics for politics' sake, the move winds up simply being embarrassing for everyone involved. Unfortunately that also includes us.
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