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7:30 Report: Internet filter policy under fire
Apr 15 2010, 12:25Last night the ABC’s 7:30 Report covered the Australian Government’s proposed Internet filtering policy. You can read the transcript here, or watch the video below:
There is also an extended interview with Senator Stephen Conroy that you can download here.
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This report is very misleading. The "old people" shown in this story couldn't care less about whether there was a filter or not, they were pro-Euthanasia and should be arguing against those laws and they have a bloody good point about that too!
Jim Wallace from the Australian Christian lobby says the government needs to "look very clearly at the people who are opposing the filter." He says that they either have a pecuniary interest (porn merchants) or have "an ideological interest like civil libertarians". Surely the Christian lobby has an 'ideological interest' in the filter too, just from the opposing view. Why should they be exempt from the sort of close attention he's advocating?
I think Snr Conroy mis-spoke when he said as a sovereign government he wouldn't let Multinational corporations or foreign governments interfere with government policy… what he meant to say was 'he wasn't going to let foreign governments, multinational corporations, Australian corporations, industry experts or the Australian people interfere'