Cleanfeed

Finally, the list of URLs included in the blacklist has been published. If you want to check it out, be warned, there is a lot of hard core and not so hard core pornography on it. I doubt much of it is illegal, but by merely being included in the list, it has been declared 'objectionable', by whichever secret persons the minister has tasked this with.

If you need to proxy around the firewall to see the list, and you are using the Firefox browser, simply click on the 'Tools' menu item and in the drop-down box click 'Add-ons'. A box will then open. In the search area of this box, type either 'Foxyproxy' or 'Torbutton'. Click to install and restart your browser when prompted. You have now rendered the multi-million dollar government firewall obsolete. It's so easy a twelve year old could do it.

Now I don't like the content listed in the list, but why is up to the government to blindfold the Australian people? I would rather see the world as it is, rather than some kind of 'government approved edit'. The government does not exist to distort our perception of the world, it exists to implement policy as decided by the electorate. We the electorate must have access to the truth in order to make good decisions about which policies to vote for.

On the subject of policy, did the ALP not promise paid maternity leave before the election? I wonder how they can afford a multi-million dollar firewall yet can't afford to keep their election promise to new mothers. Australian families won't even be able to feed their children now, let alone afford give their kids access to computers and the Net.