No Clean Feed!
I spent today, pretty much by accident, at a forum-style discussion of the issues surrounding the Australian government's proposal to filter the Internet access of all Australian citizens . I say "by accident" because the invitation to attend an " Internet Filtering and Censorship Forum " appeared in my email a couple of weeks ago, and without reading it too carefully, I thought it was going to be an educationally focused discussion about the filtering issues that schools face. That would have been useful and interesting, but I didn't realise that the discussion would actually be centred on the bigger issue of the Australian government's proposed Internet filtering scheme. I'm glad I went. Look, there is no argument from me that we need to keep our children safe online. We absolutely need to protect them from the things that are clearly inappropriate, obscene or undesirable. I remember the first time I realised my son had seen things online that...