March
22
What Year Is It Again? Which Country?
If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.
Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 2007
Since when is arguing for freedom of speech automatically equivalent to support for child pornography? “Won’t you think of the children†arguments have a long history.
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer, Mein Kampf, 1943
Just saying.
Great point – the “somebody think of the children” point of view has been made to death. Senator Conroy seems to be trying quite hard to push the point that if you oppose the filter, you’re an evil, godless, child porn-watching heathen. I find it hard to believe it’s 2009 sometimes here in Australia, as well.
Thanks Tim. I’m still seething over this issue. I’m glad that Whirlpool is still hammering away at Conroy. Good on them.