A blog to help inspire organized resistance to the ALP's ill-advised, counter-productive and potentially totalitarian plan to impose mandatory ISP-based filtering on all residential internet feeds by default.  This is *not* about the filth they are trying to block.  This is about the Orwellian mechanism they are building to do it. 

Sunday, June 1, 2008

In times of crisis such as these, I think that a pithy, highly replicable meme can come in handy.  Here's mine, with thanks to Irene of the STOP censorship mailing list for drawing my attention to Amy Adler's insightful analysis of these questions. 

I find it disturbing that when confronted with the image of a naked 12-year-old girl our Prime Minister instantly interprets the image as a paedophile would - as the depicition of an object of forbidden sexual desire.  He could have chosen the interpretation the artist intended, but he chose not to.  Perhaps Prime Minister Rudd's reputation as a nerdy intellectual is undeserved after all. 

The Porn Report

Highly (though not universally) recommended as a serious attempt to understand the role of pornography in contemporary Australian society, one which debunks much of the moral panic surrounding the subject. 

Commenting Rules

I reserve the right to remove comments, especially anonymous comments, which attempt to argue the position that possession of child porn should be legal. 
This is not my position, and I do not wish my blog to be associated with that position.  If others wish to defend this position they are welcome to do so, but they can do it elsewhere, not here. 
Where I delete such comments, I will leave a stub to indicate that this has occurred.