Filter goes ahead regardless

Filter goes ahead regardless:
There's a poll over there for fun.

"Unacceptable Website"
I find religious websites that say things like:
. Scientists will go to hell for accepting the Theory of Evolution
. Women are less than men because god said
. Homosexuals should be stoned to death like the bible says
Can I get them banned? I don't want to but if this filter is in and it is stopping me from seeing sites I want, reporting sites using religion to generate hate will be a full time occupation for me. If we live in a society that lets me get sites banned because I am uncomfortable about their content (bearing in mind that there's no such thing as a child porn site - it all happens P2P).

$128 million!
Think of all the people you know. Now think of all the people they know. Now imagine all the tax that all of these people will work all of their lives to pay. This is the kind of money we are talking about wasting on a filtering system that cannot work but makes people like the Australian Christian Lobby feel like they are regaining control of people's sex lives. This is for a filter that can be bypassed permanently for USD20 per month.

iiNet? Telstra?
Didn't these 2 ISPs pull out of the trial?
iiNet's Michael Malone appeared on 4 Corners explaining why this was a bad idea. Is Conroy simply lying about ISP support for this idea?

If Jim Wallace and Bernadette McMenamin say it's a brilliant idea run away! If the US Secretary of State, the US Ambassador to Australia, Google and Yahoo say it's a bad idea, run away! The moral of the story... Run Away!!!

Critics claim the policy will not result in any meaningful dent in the availability of harmful internet content, will create significant freedom-of-speech issues and will be prone to abuse by politicians.

Add to this the opportunity cost. Hundreds of millions of dollars that could pay for real policing and real care for real people who've been harmed by child abuse. We are letting children be abused while chasing the filtering rainbow.

Tweets aren't looking good...

Bernadette McMenamin:
Delimiter:
Somebody Think Of The Children:
And:

All she can do is denounce anyone who opposes her point of view as a child abuser. This is not an argument. This is an argument bomb.