Clean feed: dirty deed

I am an adult, I am more than capable of censoring myself, thankyou very much. Hmmph.
Posted by: frogpondsrock on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

WHAT a crock of shit! The nanny state is about to strike again. All internet in Australia will be filtered at the ISP level so that little Johnny doesn’t stumble across some porn or get pounced on by some internet predator.

AAArggghhh! This makes me so angry.

This parent is standing up and loudly telling the government to just bloody well hang on a minute, I am more than capable of protecting my children from the perils of the internet.

I worry more about my teenage son accidentally clicking onto a sparkly link that will infect my computer with a virus than I do about him accessing porn on the net.

Why? I hear you ask is that?

Because I talk to and with my children. Internet safety has been drummed into his head. The computer is in a high traffic area of the house and he has to ask my permission to use my computer.

And…

He sees more porn in the school yard than he could ever possibly access here on my computer. Some of the images our kids have on their mobile phones are very very explicit. They aren’t texting they are sexting.

But the clean feed isn’t about pornography and pedophiles that is just the catch cry to distract us from the deeper insidious implications of this horrid legislation.

This legislation is all about control of information. Politicians and their media magnate buddies are scared shitless of twitter and other social media because a: they dont know how to use it properly and b: it keeps them accountable.

I only found out about the trafigura toxic waste scandal via twitter

Cut off our access to information and you effectively cut off our voices. Australians are an apathetic bunch anyway and I think that is one of the reasons that we are being used as a test case. As well as the fact that we are a smallish island population, not too many telecommunications companies to contend with etc etc.

So lets gag Australia and see what happens. If the politicians get away with it here my friends YOU will be next.

So what can you do? You can use your voice. Loudly. We can nag the hell out of our local and federal members and loudly voice our displeasure.

Your local Member of Parliament is your representative and wants to hear about your concerns. Let your member know that you are unhappy with this policy.

Not sure who to contact? Find your local member’s contact information.

You can sign Veronica’s petition and tweet and re-tweet the link to it.

How about a phonecall to Stephen Conroy you can call the minister’s office on

(03) 9650 1188

Or write to him

Senator Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002

You can follow KevinRuddPM on twitter and bombard him with @replies letting him know personally just how cranky you are. Just make sure that you have the capital letters in the right place and that it is the verified twitter account of Kev or you will be tweeting away at a fake.

You can copy this post or parts of it and publish it on your blog as long as you give me credit.

You could also tweet this post and/or stumble it as well.

If you want other options just click on the NO CLEAN FEED button on my sidebar. Now let’s get to it Australia.