The Federal Government continues to pursue unworkable, expensive and above all, ineffective plans to mandatorily censor every Australian internet connection. The reasons the proposed legislation is a bad idea are innumerable, but here are three key points:

1. It won't protect the children
2. We will all pay for this ineffective solution
3. It sets a dangerous precedent.

To find out more about the proposed legislation visit one of the following sites where the issues are articulated much more eloquently than I could do so:

• Electronic Frontiers Australia
• No Clean Feed
• Libertus.net
• Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy

This site will be participating in the Great Australian Internet Blackout. If you'd like to participate, you can download an easy piece of javascript for your site so you can implement it on 25th January. If you'd like to implement it ahead of time and have it kick in automatically at the scheduled time, you can make the following changes in place of line 48 in /src/blackout.js:

var start = new Date('Jan 25 2010 00:00:00');
var end = new Date('Jan 30 2010 00:00:00');
var now = new Date();
 
if (cookie != 'true' && now.getTime() > start.getTime() && now.getTime() < end.getTime()) {

If you do nothing else, please take the time to understand why this is a bad policy. If you're having trouble understanding, feel free to get in touch and I'll do my best to help you understand.