Is anyone else worried about the fact that the same team of government goons who could not get the tender document correct for the National Broadband Network proposals, are now in charge of our moral compass?

If I wanted a Big Brother, I would have talked to my parents!

Why do governments still persist in their irrational thinking that they know best for us.  Last time I checked, I was surviving this thing called “life” quite well on my own terms .  I have never needed the government to tell me what to do, or when to do it, or even who could do it to.  But now, someone who was obviously more intelligent than me because they have a higher salary, has decided that it is necessary to take my moral social compass and shove it so far up my interface that I find it hard to breathe.

When a government tells you what to do, and when to do it, that is called a dictatorship.  From what I remember, we went to war to depose a dictator, not to let one fly all around the world on a 747 .

Our government seems to forget that the World Wide Web was designed with the freedom of speech in line.  While some people choose to express themselves, and their right to freedom of speech, in rather eccentric and extremist ways, it is still their fundamental right.

Paedophile networks will continue regardless of what the government implements, and it is this constant marketing of fear and paranoia here in Australia, that provides the platform for our government to manipulate our freedom and rights into what ever malleable form they wish.

Whilst I do not condone some of the extremist views on the Internet, unfortunately it is their constitutional right to hold a belief, and their right to freedom of speech to express that view in a public forum such as the Internet.

Last time I checked, Australia was renowned for making ill-conceived comments at inappropriate times in the most public of venues

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Tags: big brother, dictatorship, internet filter, national broadband network, paedophile networks, paranoia

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