Susuto

I’ve been strongly considering immigrating to Australia for a while now, but this makes me completely eliminate that as an option. As an above commenter stated, censorship only works under a totalitarian regime. First illegal sites get blocked, then borderline illegal but still legal sites get blocked, then entirely legal porn sites will get blocked, then illegal piracy sites will get block with legals ones mixed in with that, then critics of the government will start getting blocked…

Seriously, this Australian Firewall reminds me strongly of the Great Firewall of China. Do you seriously want your internet policy to be compared to today’s leading Communist state? I think not, and I refuse to move to a country that wants to pull that kind of bullshit. Quit assuming your own citizens are dumbasses, if they want to protect their families from stuff that parents don’t want their kids seeing, it’s not hard for them to do it themselves. Instead of doing something so controversial that can obviously be easily abused (and, like I said, compared to China), put that taxpayer money towards encouraging parents to take a more active role in what their kids look at online and give them information on how to set up their own filters. That way everyone’s happier.

The idiocy of people in power astounds me. Every elected office in the world needs term limits. All of them.