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Stephen Conroy: "CP is A-OK" #
Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 23:23 GMT
Not his words, but his actions. On the one hand he is saying there are child porn sites on the net, that AUSTRALIA is protected from, yet somehow, instead of asking for the site to be removed, it is blocked.... but only for Australia.
So, by his actions, CP is ok, just not for Australia, right???
There's American sites on the block list, and EU sites, a telephone call to the ISP would have those sites removed, so why does he block it in Australia instead of asking the ISP to take it down?
The world has the same age limits on porn: 18 years. Regardless of age of consent. So it's not a mismatch in age definitions.
That's the trouble with secret censorship, it starts out with someone 'protecting children' and ends up censoring Wikileaks for making you look bad (and no doubt UK.gov would censor the press stories on the leaked expenses lists on grounds of national security if they had their block infrastructure in place, remember Spy catcher? It's the nature of governments to censor things that make it look bad on any spurious reasoning they can).
If Australia is already blocking anti-abortion and Wikileaks, image after 10 years of secret censorship how that list would have expanded. Who knows Wikipedia might even be banned, as ridiculous as that sounds....
