Australian Internet filter. Who decides what’s good for me?
The Internet has always been the major threat for any totalitarian government, as it is an uncontrollable source of information for civilians. As in most of the countries authorities cannot close it down, the only way the deal with the Internet is to stop it from being uncontrollable. That is totalitarian way.
However, surprisingly, the Australian Federal Government has announced that it will proceed with its plans to introduce a mandatory screening and filtering system of the Internet content for all Asutralians. Of course, these attempts are represented as an aim to protect us, Australians, from harmful content on the Internet. Of course, they are buzzing about the safety of children and families. And, of course, they say that it is all about child pornography, crime and terrorism (yes, again, nothing new), while, of course, they did not release the list of the sites they want to block. Then, who knows what else can be blocked in that list? Anything that Australians are “not suppose to know”.
By the way, doesn’t it feel like the ones who [pretend to] fiercely fight against paedophilia, are a large part of the wide spreading paedophilia phenomenon themselves? They bring it up so often, talk about it so much, scream so loudly, so even a person who previously had no idea what paedophilia is about, now knows exactly what it is and how it can be done. For example, I learnt about what paedophilia and the world terrorism are from politicians. But that may be the whole point, because in this way the “fighters” have even more reason to introduce the controlling means like filters, as their indirect advertisement induces more cases to fight against. They exaggerate the “unwanted” things so well; so that the cases of [seeming] offence increase every year and they have all their rights to say, “See?! We told you, it’s everywhere!”
Also, it is obvious that authorities aware of that the filter will not prevent determined individuals from accessing and sharing any content they want, but it will definitely create a censorship mechanism to restrict common Internet users.
In some civilised countries such filters are voluntary. If a family thinks that they do need such protection, or that they cannot control their children, or if some of its members don’t know good from bad, they can install a filter. It is up to the people. But Australian politicians are going to decide for the whole country.
It is also well known that the only way to get total control is to convince people that they do need this control. That is when the worldwide scam about terrorism and paedophilia comes in handy. How else somebody could restrict freedom of the whole nation? Millions would protest. But when the restriction is covered by the paedophilia/terrorism shawl, hardly anybody would dare disagree, as he would be immediately told “Aha! Then you are a paedophile/terrorist yourself!”
Another scary thing is that if today somebody can decide what information we all cannot access, tomorrow that somebody may monitor each step of each Internet user. So basically, we are marching into a cage, paying for the cage with our taxes and think that we will conquer something bad along the way. By the time the majority wakes up and realises that we are not going to win in this windmills battle against our own freedom, it will be too late. Congratulations!
19 December 2009
