Originally posted by Shadic

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This is so infuriating. I know as an American I'm not one to talk... (Hey, I live in Washington/Oregon, we've got pretty good representatives here, aside from my local House Rep, who will likely be eliminated next primary season)

Erm, as I was saying. I'm not one to talk, but you guys have really, really shitty government officials. I'm pretty sure something like this would be killed off so hard in the US.

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They lied to us at election time. The previous government had its own filtering regime: a local-machine based one which parents could voluntarily install, and which was shown to be circumvented easily by a kid within days.

Both the previous government and the new one have been pressured to "fix" that by implementing ISP-based filtering. At the time of the election, both parties claimed this would be also voluntary: it was only mandatory for ISPs to make it available, but you could choose not to use it.

This was a lie.

Then it was said there would be the ability to opt-out of the filter.

This was also a lie.

But no matter how unpopular this is it's not getting changed: the Australian Christian Lobby or whatever they're called is being a pain in the arse, and the Government probably thinks its better to appease them than to listen to the public: the public isn't as much of a pain in the arse at the moment.

Which is why anti-censorship protesters need to find a way to BE a pain in the arse. Protesting in the streets, and letter writing isn't enough: it won't dent the fear the government has of the Australian Christian Lobby.

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