I don't. If you're that concerned install your own filtering system on your own computer.
Don't wrap the nation in cotton wool because there might be something evil on the internet and everyone needs to be protected from it.
... and here we are participating in forums that utilise appointed censors acting under generally loose and arbitary/subjective guidelines to do on a smaller/more local scale the very things you're complaining about the government planning to do on behalf of a probable majority who will never object to it !
Ironic much ?
Yet I don't see much jumping up and down about that ... could it be that we both recognise the need and appreciate such filtering and the application of such subjective measures ?
I don't see this proposed (and obviously flawed) filtering system as some sort of attempt to "wrap the nation in cotton wool" – I see it as a justifiable and lawful attempt to limit and control certain material online, just as the upholders of the law are already obliged to limit and control it offline in its more traditional environments.
The Government is kinda legally obliged to try and create such a system of management and I doubt if anyone is expecting them to get it right on first attempt.
Ah, but in the technological age, I'm sure a solution will eventually be found if not just settled on.
Let's look at this another way for a moment. When something is deemed "illegal" (take controlled narcotic substances for example), it is the job of the relevant authorities to ensure that the supply of the same is discovered and intercepted before it can make it out into the midst of the general public yes ?
Isn't internut "filtering" attempting to do that very same thing in relation to certain kinds forms of illegal information ?
Surely we wouldn't want the AFP to stop making drug busts and to stop trying to preventing illegal materials, substances, and items to be shipped into and around our country, so similiarly, why wouldn't we want the designated authorities to being doing the same sort thing in relation to things deemed illegal when it comes to the internut ?
"because my internut will go slower" is a kinda lame response, but what I find disturbing is to read comments from folk who seem to be declaring that our elected government has no right to try and stop the flow of stuff online that has already been deemed illegal without any significant fuss in the offline world.
Sure, we all want a "free internut" (in every sense of the word "free"), but surely that shouldn't mean that we want an internut free of the laws we live our offline lives by ... or free from community and family oriented responsibility ?
Okay, so most around here don't like the filter idea (no surprises why) but why not try being constructive for a moment and suggest what methods COULD be employed in relation to the internut in relation to bringing it into line with the laws governing our offline time ?
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