To accept a government filter of the internet, is to accept that it is the role of the government arbiter of “appropriateness”.
Stephen Conroy claims that the Internet “is a wonderful tool”. He is wrong, the internet is not a tool. It is a descriptor, an abstract concept. It is the totality of human interaction facilitated by a form of computer networking.
Stephen Conroy has declared that this government will filter the internet for “illegal and inappropriate content”. In doing this the government will have to determine what is appropriate, in all forms of human interaction possible in an electronic medium.
Life is lived through our interactions with people, our conversations and expressions. In creating a clean feed, the government is seeking to sanitise human existence itself. Life will be made “safe” for the children.
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on Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:23 am
[...] liberties, freedom of speech, internet filtering | by Sam Clifford Kieran Bennett nails it in one (and two): To accept a government filter of the internet, is to accept that it is the role of the [...]
on Aug 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I told you about the time Google wouldn’t let me send an email cos it had the phrase ’semi-permanent boner’ in it, didn’t I?
Still pissed about that. *sigh*