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question · 09-27-04, 03:14 PM

A conservative Australian party is demanding a levy on all internet users to fund a AU$45m blockade on smut and general web nastiness at server level, news.com.au reports.

Family First - which holds seats in South Australia - has close ties to the Pentecostal Assemblies of God and reckons that: "As a society, we have acknowledged the need to regulate other media and prevent porn peddlers from accessing children and adolescents." The ban would hit "disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour" and would see users stump up AU$7 to AU$10 per year.

Family First acknowledges that their plan "may have the result of putting cost pressures on some of the smaller ISPs" but claims that most of them are dispensible anyway. Indeed, the party says that "adequate competition could be maintained with 30 ISPs rather than the hundreds in existence now". The net tax is essential, it insists, and the destruction of most of Oz's service providers "is a small price to pay to protect children".

Interestingly, Family First's proposal cites a recent study by the Australia Institute which "found many teenagers had been exposed to internet pornography, and questioned the effectiveness of the existing system of internet regulation". We suspect that this is none other then the eye-opening probe into Aussie smut which actually concluded that net porn is good for you. This particular study caused an almighty punch-up fuelled by moral indignation and fury, and it appears that Family First has now quite startlingly co-opted the findings for its own porn-busting crusade. ®

taken from : > The Register <

Hey Bubu · 09-27-04, 03:21 PM

HAHAH even more reasons for Autralians to drink more.

USAcommitteeX · 09-27-04, 03:49 PM

To block that nasty shit they call porn today I would gladly do so.

Ryan · 09-27-04, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by USAcommitteeX

To block that nasty shit they call porn today I would gladly do so.

So you would enforce a tax upon everyone in order to censor the web. And you call yourself a "conservative?"

More taxes, more censorship, more federal government nannies - because conservative politicians know better than you.

question · 09-27-04, 04:04 PM

Oh, so you would pay taxes that would limit other people's choices?

Conservative indeed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by USAcommitteeX

To block that nasty shit they call porn today I would gladly do so.

FatCat · 09-27-04, 05:19 PM

(imo)Slowly but surely the word 'choice' is becoming kind of a joke.. No matter is it's porn or how I choose to spend my free time

Matthew-

johnny861 · 09-27-04, 07:13 PM

Well, at least we're not the only country trying to push stupid shit...

09-27-04, 03:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
question Foolish Bastard Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Downtown Posts: 5,321	Aussie conservatives want users to pay for porn block A conservative Australian party is demanding a levy on all internet users to fund a AU$45m blockade on smut and general web nastiness at server level, news.com.au reports. Family First - which holds seats in South Australia - has close ties to the Pentecostal Assemblies of God and reckons that: "As a society, we have acknowledged the need to regulate other media and prevent porn peddlers from accessing children and adolescents." The ban would hit "disturbed, aggressive or sexualised behaviour" and would see users stump up AU$7 to AU$10 per year. Family First acknowledges that their plan "may have the result of putting cost pressures on some of the smaller ISPs" but claims that most of them are dispensible anyway. Indeed, the party says that "adequate competition could be maintained with 30 ISPs rather than the hundreds in existence now". The net tax is essential, it insists, and the destruction of most of Oz's service providers "is a small price to pay to protect children". Interestingly, Family First's proposal cites a recent study by the Australia Institute which "found many teenagers had been exposed to internet pornography, and questioned the effectiveness of the existing system of internet regulation". We suspect that this is none other then the eye-opening probe into Aussie smut which actually concluded that net porn is good for you. This particular study caused an almighty punch-up fuelled by moral indignation and fury, and it appears that Family First has now quite startlingly co-opted the findings for its own porn-busting crusade. ® taken from : > The Register < __________________ True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which is above is the same as that which is below, and that which is below is the same as that which is above, for the performance of miracles of the One Thing. And as all things are from the One, by the meditation of One, so all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation.

09-27-04, 03:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hey Bubu Funky Spunk Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: take a left at the cow Posts: 17,127	HAHAH even more reasons for Autralians to drink more. __________________ "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about." --Joseph Campbell,

09-27-04, 05:19 PM	#6 (permalink)
FatCat Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 187	(imo)Slowly but surely the word 'choice' is becoming kind of a joke.. No matter is it's porn or how I choose to spend my free time Matthew- __________________ "I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again" "Only the supremely wise and the abysmally ignorant do not change"

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09-27-04, 03:49 PM	#3 (permalink)
USAcommitteeX Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,219	To block that nasty shit they call porn today I would gladly do so.