Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt7

If and when I break the law, I expect my case to be handled with due process and be punished accordingly.

Ah, so you would prefer a reporting system rather than a filtering system, Alex12 ?

The filter:

(a) assumes that I am a criminal by default,

I don't see the filter as assuming anything ... it is just a filter busy doing what filters do – keeping the pond clean. :)

The not unreasonable assumption and cause for the filter is that there are things out there that should be filtered, so that is what it is for. No assumption is made that you are a criminal, and nor would you even begin to be unless you attempted to access things deemed illegal, and the fact that the filter would filter you means that a greater crime has been prevented from happening.

Just think of the savings on the legal system. :)

(b) ignores due process,

So Oz should cease and desist in all attempts at crime prevention and instead only worry about dealing with crime after it is committed ? Not very comforting ! Time you took down your security door on your house and firewall on your computers, hmmm ?

( c) doesn't punish me other than by (not really) limiting my ability to engage in further allegedly illegal activities.

Let me get this right. You want to be able to freely commit a crime so you can waste Oz resources by tying up court time so that a punishment can be inflicted upon you ?

That doesn't sound very healthy to me – but cheers for being an obvious example of why the internut in Oz is way over-due for a greater degree of filtering than it already has ... and also putting the "U" into that word I like to use. :)

regarDS