What a crock of shit! The nanny state is about to strike again. All internet in Australia will be filtered at the ISP level so that little Johnny doesn’t stumble across some porn or get pounced on by some internet predator.
AAArggghhh! This makes me so angry.
This parent is standing up and loudly telling the government to just bloody well hang on a minute, I am more than capable of protecting my children from the perils of the internet.
I worry more about my teenage son accidentally clicking onto a sparkly link that will infect my computer with a virus than I do about him accessing porn on the net.
Why? I hear you ask is that?
Because I talk to and with my children. Internet safety has been drummed into his head. The computer is in a high traffic area of the house and he has to ask my permission to use my computer.
And…
He sees more porn in the school yard than he could ever possibly access here on my computer. Some of the images our kids have on their mobile phones are very very explicit. They aren’t texting they are sexting.
But the clean feed isn’t about pornography and pedophiles that is just the catch cry to distract us from the deeper insidious implications of this horrid legislation.
This legislation is all about control of information. Politicians and their media magnate buddies are scared shitless of twitter and other social media because a: they dont know how to use it properly and b: it keeps them accountable.
I only found out about the trafigura toxic waste scandal via twitter
Cut off our access to information and you effectively cut off our voices. Australians are an apathetic bunch anyway and I think that is one of the reasons that we are being used as a test case. As well as the fact that we are a smallish island population, not too many telecommunications companies to contend with etc etc.
So lets gag Australia and see what happens. If the politicians get away with it here my friends YOU will be next.
So what can you do? You can use your voice. Loudly. We can nag the hell out of our local and federal members and loudly voice our displeasure.
Your local Member of Parliament is your representative and wants to hear about your concerns. Let your member know that you are unhappy with this policy.
Not sure who to contact? Find your local member’s contact information.
You can sign Veronica’s petition and tweet and re-tweet the link to it.
How about a phonecall to Stephen Conroy you can call the minister’s office on
(03) 9650 1188
Or write to him
Senator Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002
You can follow KevinRuddPM on twitter and bombard him with @replies letting him know personally just how cranky you are. Just make sure that you have the capital letters in the right place and that it is the verified twitter account of Kev or you will be tweeting away at a fake.
You can copy this post or parts of it and publish it on your blog as long as you give me credit.
You could also tweet this post and/or stumble it as well.
If you want other options just click on the NO CLEAN FEED button on my sidebar. Now lets get to it Australia.
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Oh I’m so with you on this. Our kides PC is in the lounge, in full view of everyone. We talk about it, we watch the kids on the PC, it’s the done thing. I had parents that did the same for me when i was a kid (not online, but same morals/values etc).
Geebus, enough already on this sort of censorship. Let’s remember prohibition and how that worked, or DIDN’T! *sigh*
Good post. 🙂
I fall a bit more into stalky internet love with you, with every post 😉
Amen Kim! …and remind me never to piss you off;)
THAT’S RIGHT. It is NOT about protecting children. It’s about information control. If it were about protecting children, they’d actually do a better job of prosecuting pedophiles instead of cutting deals with their lawyers.
Just saying.
You are SO right! THis is infuriating.
Will re-post.
xoxo
Good on you Kim. And very very well said!
You’re right, it IS about control, and I don’t want the government controlling my computer. I’m quite capable thankyouverymuch.
This world is coming to a place that I’m not sure I want to be. Can somebody pull over? I’m ready to disembark this ride.
This makes me so mad. I posted about it a while back but I really hoped it would die. It is pointless and ridiculous, not to mention dangerous to our society, our freedom. My children, my responsibility.
George Orwell wrote a book once. 1984. Way ahead of it’s time when I read it in 1984. 25 years later, I wish I9 still had it. From what I remember, what sounded way off in 1984 is true today. Even in tiny town Belgium.
I came via Fe’s blog. Shades of China, don’t you think? Thanks for the kick in the pants. I’ll be borrowing excerpts (sans the children) and crediting you on my own blog.