More Crappola about the Filter

Once again, I'm blogging about the Australian Government's idea to filter Australia's Internet.

Recently, we were told that it won't be a crime to circumvent it.

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So tell me, boys and girls, who is this actually protecting again?It's been claimed that this filter will only block out certain topics from "inadvertantly" being shown to kids. There aren't too many things that kids are going to accidentally wander into, although if the Google safe search filter is turned off, then the results could be unfortunate if they're looking for pictures of "girl on horse."

That being said, there isn't too much that you can "accidentally" walk into. The viewing of material on the internet is largely intent-driven, which means that maybe if Mr Stephen Conroy keeps on "stumbling" into inappropriate material online, then maybe he should be a little more honest about his viewing habits and actually stroll into a pornographic site like a mature adult!

Amid the bullshit though, there is a teenaged beacon of hope.

Behold! The Leader of the Revolution!

Tom Wood, the lad who managed to bust John Howard's sad attempt at a filter in less than half an hour, has spoken up and stated that he's gonna get around it and frankly, that it didn't protect anyone from a damned thing.

So, we have a filter that we can freely navigate around, that will slow our internet speeds down, that tackles none of the real issues that are posing a genuine problem, such as internet addiction. Pictured: Internet use.

So while the peer to peer swapping of kiddie pictures and trolling myspace for teen boys continues, we can all sleep knowing that at least the process of downloading pictures of Little Orphan Annie to whack off to is going to be abysmally slow. Is it any wonder that people are convinced that Mr Conroy doesn't know how to do his damned job?

Folks, for all that it will take to get around this filter, I'd suggest going here for the info. This person's done their research and I think that they have a lot of valid points. I personally will be going around the filter as an act of dissidence and I'd like a lot more people to get involved as well.