My _Guardian_ Column on Government Of Australia National Censorware Plan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/13/guardianweeklytechnologysection.comment
"What is really under discussion is control of people. Calling it 'censorware' has the advantage of clarity"
I'm glad they used that as excerpt, though I don't like the title given ("The internet can't be censored and it's wrong for governments to try" - I don't assert categorically that the Internet can't be censored, in fact "Can you censor the Internet?" is the question I've explored for many years).
By Seth Finkelstein | posted in censorware | on September 13, 2007 08:00 PM (Infothought permalink)
Politicians are stupid. But they're great at ass-covering once they've urinated out their patch of ground.
Censorware is great smelly example: our Aussie politicans are "seen to be doing" (but never *doing*) something useful. In this case protecting children from some unknown orange-terror-alert Pedo/Porn/Subversive thing.
Hell - children shouldn't have PCs in their bedrooms anywayz and filtering software might help for the under 12's... but underestimating teenagers is unwise.
The *problem* is when censorship affects adults. This censorware might distract the pollies long enough for us to read the non-Murdocracized truth for another 5 years.