Thanks everybody for your comments. Sorry I'm only responding now but the Net has been off at home since the Brisbane storm on Sunday night.

Col Rouge, I think you might be misreading my article - I definitely don't believe that "the right" is the problem, rather those right-wingers who are socially conservative and wish to censor are part of the problem, and so are pseudo-leftists like Clive Hamilton. Libertarian right-wingers are part of the solution.

Oh, and beige ice-cream? Truly a horrible idea :p

I imagine that rstuart is right about Yuri's idea, but I'm glad that Yuri bothered to think about a possible solution - please keep on doing that.

Your Domestic Bliss is right to point out that anything the Government decides is "illegal" could possibly be banned. In theory, they could try to ban everything they haven't previously approved (although I think that's unlikely).

I published an article along these lines last week and Gold Coast blogger Danu Poyner published this article in response:

http://www.danupoyner.com/2008/11/14/how-to-defeat-internet-censorship/

And if anyone wants to join in the protests against the Government's plan to censor "unwanted" material, you can join up here:

http://nocensorship.info/forum/index.php

Or on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/group.php?gid=42559583383

The Brisbane protest will be held on Saturday, December 13th at 11am at Brisbane Square in the city. Other protests are to be held in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart (so far).

Also, after discussing this article on Twitter with Michael Meloni (the blogger at someonethinkofthechildren.com) I'm going to have a look at more of the stuff that's been published in the mainstream media and see if I've been unfair. I'll leave a comment here about what I find.

This is a wonderful piece that addresses the awful manner in which most left oriented people deal with issues that offend them. It also brings me great Joy that the Liberal Party are not supporting this foolish and ill-informed idea. Victorians such as myself are all currently under the rule of potentially the stupidest governments in the history of our Nation Brumby driving us into the ground with his backwards policies targeting youth culture and Kevin 747 off on another trip while his backbenchers push through ridiculous plans that would constrict the liberties that we all hold dear. All Australians Left and Right alike should thank their lucky stars that Turnbull as the opposition leader, lest we be given some religious right wowser hell bent on enforcing his/her views on us all.

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves." Ronald Reagan.

Today (10 Dec 2008) Conroy's Department put up a short post on the following website http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/industry_development/digital_economy/future_directions_blog/topics/digital_economy_benefit.

Those concerned about the many problems of the Conroy/Labor/Rudd policy of FILTERING are having their say. Checkout the link above.

While most comments thus far are against filtering Conroy will use the comments as an indication of support if comments swing in favour of the quaint Luddite and expensive idea of Filtering.

So have your say on the site above.

Pete