How politicians don’t understand the web, part 8642

As the issue of internet censorship heats up in Australia – along with my recent article in the Melbourne Age about the government’s absurd proposals – one of the best sites to track progress is Somebody Think of The Children. Take this post or this one.

Simply put, our government is in thrall to the Christian lobby and perhaps hoped the general public wouldn’t react to their unworkable and counter-productive plans to filter websites.

It should fail.

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