[MD] On the road to serfdom

[gav]

serfdom? are you talking of regressing to some sort of medieval agrarian existence?
and if so how do you extrapolate that from net censorship?




--- On Fri, 31/10/08, Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MD] On the road to serfdom
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Received: Friday, 31 October, 2008, 7:27 AM
> >From heroldsun.com. au
> 
> October 29, 2008
> 
> "AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory
> censoring of the 
> internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government.
> 
> "The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google,
> Microsoft and Yahoo, and 
> a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a
> code of conduct 
> aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy.
> 
> "The government has declared it will not let internet
> users opt out of the 
> proposed national internet filter.
> 
> "The plan was first created as a way to combat child
> pornography and adult 
> content, but could be extended to include controversial
> websites on 
> euthanasia or anorexia.
> 
> "Communications minister Stephen Conroy revealed the
> mandatory censorship 
> to the Senate estimates committee as the Global Network
> Initiative, 
> bringing together leading companies, human rights
> organisations, academics 
> and investors, committed the technology firms to
> "protect the freedom of 
> expression and privacy rights of their users".
> 
> "Mr Conroy said trials were yet to be carried out, but
> "we are talking 
> about mandatory blocking, where possible, of illegal
> material."
> 
> "The net nanny proposal was originally going to allow
> Australians who 
> wanted uncensored access to the web the option of
> contacting their internet 
> service provider to be excluded from the service.
> 
> Comment: Another step taken by the Left on the road to
> serfdom. Looks like 
> the U.S. is about to follow.
> 
> Platt
>  
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