Australian internet filtering... JUST LIKE CHINA

"Apparently the Rudd government wants to impose MANDATORY CENSORSHIP on the Internet, placing Australia alongside China as one of the few countries globally that broadly censor the Internet."

This is for the so called"safety" of our children, but does it really save them at all? The cost involved is massive, and the technology will be bypassed eventually anyway. What a waste of an investment.

Not the mention the fact that we are edgeing dangerously toward a very communist style of national manipulation. Denying people access to materials is liek denying them their freedom and rights. Look how poorly informed the chinese are of the ouside world due to their internet filtering.

Parents should be the ones in charge of monitoring their children, why should the rest of Australian internet users suffer because some lazy paranoid and complaining parents don't know how to keep their children in line?

Honestly, watching the news and hearing those parents in favour of such outlandish ideals makes me want to die. They are the typical over sensitive parents who, and don't realise meanwhile that their children hate their parents for being so controlling.

Remember when you were at school? You would remember that kid that always had the healthiest, boring lunchbox, with the parents who wouldn't let them go out past 5pm, those who weren't allowed to hang out or catch the bus because the parents were scared for their safety. The child who wore boring conservative clothes and was scared to break any rules or have any friends.

The parents of these children didn't realise that they were raising a child in a life of misery, turning them into the schoolyard victim not to mention the fact that they were or are raising another generation of boring people. The main issue is that many of these kids "break out" of their parents hold in an attempt to live a normal life or rebel against the shackles, but often doing so through drinking and crime. I have witnessed this personally.

I have been in favour of the Labor government for some time, but this has got to be the first of many Sh*t policies we're going to come across. I'm seriously disappointed.

Please sign the petition against the policy and save Australian internet.
http://petitions.takingitglobal.org/oznetcensorship