[MLB-WIRELESS] Government Internet Filter - What do you think?

Duncan Robertson duncan at zog.net.au
Thu Dec 11 09:48:11 EST 2008


In the current hysteric witch hunt client where someone gets the police
at their door for re-posting a "funniest home video" style vid of
someone swinging a baby around, they can't be trusted not to abuse the
facility: 
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

It is the same stupid going through the motions "security theatre" to
make people think they are safer as practiced in airports. 

Also since they are using "think of the children" rhetoric to justify
this, the money would be much better spent on hospitals or reducing
waiting lists or child walfare social services where the millions of
dollars spent will directly translate in to lives saved :- therefore
spending the money on nanny state stuff that pretty much everybody knows
will not work and NOT on direct tangible livesaving expenditure could be
considered the greater degree of negligance and child abuse.

my 3c






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