[MD] On the road to serfdom

[Woods Woods]

Arlo:
The Net Filter is backed strongly in Australia by conservative organization Family First ("Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government's plans to filter the internet, sparking renewed fears the censorship could be expanded well beyond "illegal material".") In America, conservative organizations like Focus on the Family have repeatedly moved to include "pro-abortion" sites in pornography filtering initiatives.


woods:
   Also Australian groups are debating if gambling sites ought to be closed too.  
The debates on these will be endless once the regulation begins, and once 
this happens will we have to keep an eye on Congress and the President 
everyday, like we do now (in Australia no doubt too).  Even if we do 
keep an eye on them doesn't mean anything either, for the people that 
called about the bailout was probably the most awake moment in recent 
times by the U.S. general public, maybe up there with voting, and Congress 
went ahead and passed it anyways. 

Arlo:
Back in America, two conservative Republicans (Goodlatte (R-VA) and Sen. Kyl (R-AZ)) have been behind initiatives to censor online gambling sites. "Leftist" groups, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/) continue to monitor and challenge threats to online freedoms and access to information. For a good overview of this history of censorship in America, take a look at the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States).
Saying all this is "steps by the Left" is simply inane (to put it kindly), but I suppose its more important to blame "them evil libs" for everything than it is to actually learn the facts.



woods:
   I guess gambling in the U.S. too, I see.



woods