In the latest instalment of the moral crusade led by Senator Stephen Conroy and the Labor Government, the ACMA released their report entitled Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Content Filtering, which was subsequently hailed an astounding success and a victory for the safety of children everywhere. Stepping out of PR land, despite what Senator Conroy would have us believe, the report indicates that the choice of filters would, essentially, be a choice between one with minimal performance hit but abysmal detection rates, and one with better detection rates but significant performance loss. Worse yet, the report itself has been described as being ‘riddled with technical errors’, making numerous false claims and failing to effectively measure and analyse the performance impact of the trialled filters.
So, on the grounds of this disputable report, the Government has cleared the latest hurdle in their quest to censor the Internet and ensure the repression of free speech for Australians. Of course, anyone that disagrees with their aims must be a paedophile and child molester. Meanwhile, the mainstream media in Australia has been outraged by the Internet censorship in China, but seems to be paying no attention to its rise in their own backyard.
Enough with all the ridiculous pretense. The children are already safe; our liberties, however, are in grave danger.
