tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post5730914191325419788..comments2023-08-07T17:21:41.851+10:00Comments on Anything Goes: Joe Hockey and Kate Lundy - a new DemocratsDavid Havyatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-68121291316480349522010-03-17T12:12:01.029+10:002010-03-17T12:12:01.029+10:00Saying that Hockey and Lundy should join the Democ...Saying that Hockey and Lundy should join the Democrats is flippant at best. <br /><br />The Democrats or Greens will never form govenment, and even the Nationals are second fiddle in the coalition.<br /><br />bad policy from a govenment will allways trump good policy from a crossbench partyFake Paul Keatinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05151895678851084960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-51916731871436153162010-03-15T18:01:14.922+10:002010-03-15T18:01:14.922+10:00Yet the ISP filter has been receiving opposition f...Yet the ISP filter has been receiving opposition from various bodies you would think would give it the greatest support. According to Simon Wright at Whirlpool, the following groups are in opposition:<br /><br />Child protection group Save the Children<br />National Children's and Youth Law Centre<br />NSW Director of Public Prosecutions<br /><br />Surely these people who take it upon Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-92134849936738043602010-03-15T16:27:41.357+10:002010-03-15T16:27:41.357+10:00Is it the children who see the material or the chi...Is it the children who see the material or the children who get abused to make the image the ones we want to protect? Or, the children who won't get abused because one less person ever saw an image.<br /><br />Senator Conroy will tell you the Government also increased funding for the AFP as part of its policy. <br /><br />Once again I'm not in this post saying anything other than David Havyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-25767157344520326542010-03-15T16:21:05.248+10:002010-03-15T16:21:05.248+10:00Yet the people we are attempting to protect our ki...Yet the people we are attempting to protect our kids from are still free and doing their worst on the net.<br /><br />So the initial goal of the filter to protect kids is not advanced by the filters existence. <br /><br />Once again, we should use the funds wisely to track and prosecute these people. I hear kiddie fiddlers don't have a great experience in prison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-19716209943169603882010-03-15T16:09:11.203+10:002010-03-15T16:09:11.203+10:00Wow. I hope anonymous has been paying attention a...Wow. I hope anonymous has been paying attention and realises the Government is currently consulting on how to manage the transparency and accountability of the list. <br /><br />I know at least one submission has suggested this be conducted exactly the same way as any other RC process, including informing the content owner (the registered owner of the domain of which the designated page is partDavid Havyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-44988328516957385252010-03-15T15:58:14.831+10:002010-03-15T15:58:14.831+10:00Scope creep is not required for there to be an abu...Scope creep is not required for there to be an abuse of the filter. As the blacklist of RC content will not be visible, and no auditing conducted, sites will be added according to the bias and preferences of a handful of people.<br /><br />There has already been the example of the dentists website that had been added to the leaked list merely because years before the site had been hacked.<br /><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-40473871300634067922010-03-15T14:53:10.518+10:002010-03-15T14:53:10.518+10:00The "thin end of the wedge" argument is ...The "thin end of the wedge" argument is hard to understand. If the enabling legislation for a mandatory filter is explicit on the content to be filtered, scope creep would require another parliamentary decision not a government one.<br /><br />Whether we have a blocked list of RC sites now or not does not make it any easier for a future parliament to introduce legislation for a wider David Havyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843396871891422509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4081346.post-82197747777693541192010-03-15T14:39:28.451+10:002010-03-15T14:39:28.451+10:00I don't think there is confusions over illegal...I don't think there is confusions over illegal and refused classification material. This is the key statement for me:<br /><br />"Some may argue that we can surely trust a democratically-elected government in Australia to never try to introduce more wide-spread censorship. I am not so sure!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com