Twist86
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ooo, nice avvy twist
Thank you....though I wish the avatars were 150x150 (seeing as there is PLENTY of space for it)
Her smile is what got me ^-^
ooo, nice avvy twist
Its absolutely ridiculous. Its going to cost something like AUD$43 million for this filter, why not put it towards something useful? Like giving rural areas decent internet, improving out health system etc. etc. They're not protecting anyone they're just limiting our already stuffed up internet services. 90% of people don't want it and know its not going to help, the other 10% are ignorant fools, Stephan Conroy is an ignorant fool!
I think most people know that there are no child pornography sites and it is shared over closed networks and chatrooms, so the majority of sites that get blocked will be totally safe websites.
If parents are so worried about what their children do on the internet, don't let them use it without supervision! Limit their time and lock computers so they can't use it when your not home.
Stephan Conroy obviously thinks he's some big hero who's going to save all the children, I've got nothing against saving children, just do it in a way that actually works.
Obama did that purely to show how big he thinks he is....we should have no say over another countries policies. We need to stay out of other peoples business.
Its absolutely ridiculous. Its going to cost something like AUD$43 million for this filter, why not put it towards something useful? Like giving rural areas decent internet, improving out health system etc. etc. They're not protecting anyone they're just limiting our already stuffed up internet services.!....QUOTE]
Yup. Most of rural Australia are either on Dial-up or satellite, and most of populated Australia is on ADSL +2 but very limited (mostly 25g month plans) even though it's all software based. Telstra will not let anyone else have faster internet than them and they are really slow, Kevin Rudd scrapped the fibre optics plan (we are actually one of -maybe the biggest- miners of sand in the world - which fibre optics are mostly made of - and we don't even get to use it) so we are really limited on internet use already.
countries and governments are very afraid of the power the internet has given the ordinary person, we cannot be bs'ted anymore, kept in the dark regarding information, we now know at a touch what is happening in any part of the world and they don't like it.
Allowing any type of filtering can and will lead to information blackout eventually and they are using moral arguments in an underhand way just to get the publics approval.
If allowed it will be a slippery downhill road to big brother.
yes, im sure it hurts you terribly when big boobs pop out of your screen and you had absolutely nothing to do with it
Just read this article and suprisingly, I kinda approve of it. I'm tired of going to websites that "look" safe and turn out to be porn related and such.
Just read this article and suprisingly, I kinda approve of it. I'm tired of going to websites that "look" safe and turn out to be porn related and such.