For politicians, "evidence" isn't something to be gathered with forensic precision and preserved through a documented chain of custody. Nor it is something to be compiled transparently, justified through meticulous research and refined in the purifying fire of peer review.
No. For politicians, "evidence" is something to be plucked from wherever it can be found and sprinkled to justify a previously-chosen policy like so much magic fairy dust.
The Rudd government's internet censorship proposal is not about protecting the children. It's about politics.
ABC article:
Yes! Where's the evidence, Conroy. Your unfounded assertions, ad hominem attacks on anyone who dares oppose your filter, and beliefs are not evidence for the existence of massive social harm requiring expensive and ineffective solutions.
Produce your evidence and you can have your filter.
Produce your evidence that the current censorship system has merit while you are at it.
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