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The sad fact is that the media backers support the kind of ideals that lead to 'Bring back the biff' as seen on TCN9 for a well known Government Funded sport that self markets into grog and betting amusments. Other networks like 7 promote commercial content as news with stories from 'sony x-games' to 'second lifers'. Longer commercial content is framed over time to generate the political ideals for best commercial dividends.
The election has seen Australian IT sold for 2cents, and a DRM solution to filter porn and other commercial media is now being planned by the ALP who will attempt to retain control for political ideals (and if you do get porn, just like the whale news stories they will be removed after commercial gain)
The last Government simply bagged out FSF to GNU while they at least attempted to provide a working solution to end user consumners who wanted protection (no child labor old media script kiddies were used)
With over 1 billion real world pages of junk mail delivered every year in just the capital for the likes of Disney to Warner (who cant advertise this way because its illegal in their own country) every child could of had a free IT solution to view the ads they will be shown anyway (but fox had other plans!)
Telstra = Dialup is still over $20.... 2008.... no free phone over the internet (never mind the fact one computer takes the place of an entire exchange)
List of links includes Football, sports, kids, grog, betting...
Kind of says everything..
Mean while the whole issue of the Government being the Adult who will screen the screams of its children for the protection of who? Its not the children getting the protection!
Like keyoto, the ideal that removes responsibility and is a great excuse to make people with less pay more. Kinda like $15 million being spent in advertising while the very same people in power now, with their own media backers who discredited Australian Government Policy for commercial gain can only manage press releases 3 months after election.. now thats protection.. an ALP hot air bag?
Loved the article, 100 points. (I also agree with Garth)
hasty decision
Even though I'm strongly opposed to the use and free availability of pornograpy, this suggestion is the wrong one.
Another hasty decision by the ALP. Don't they realise that if you take the route of enorcing filtering at the ISPs end and rgulating it (as governments love to do) it'll just cost us all more for Internet usage. Don't support duch a Draconian policy.
And that's apart from the censorship issue. There are better ways to deal with this important issue.
Let's educate people, particularly young people, about the exploitation of people that pornography represents, particularly women and often minors purely for the financial gain of people who care little about the devastation it does to a person's self-worth. Let's educate people on how pornography does serious damage to relationships, encouraging the sexual objectification of people, the desensitising of emotions, and discourages healthy attitudes toward sex.
Let's keep on encouraging adults to take control of their children's Internet usage and help protect their chlidren. I think that free installation centres sponsored by the government and community groups would be a great help since many adults are just overwhelmed by the computers and the Internet.