Iran, Burma, North Korea, China, Australia!
I of course have more serious issues than pants to be addressed today.
Minister for Fucking Things Up, Stephen Conroy, announced yesterday that in light of the forthcoming National Broadband Network offering a gnat's pube chance of Australia having first world internet, he would be implementing a compulsory internet filter.
The reasoning behind the compulsory internet filter was to stop people accidentally stumbling on child pornography.
Let's re-read that again. Accidentally stumbling on child pornography.
Now I don't mean to brag, but I've been bumbling around the web since 1995, and I have yet to accidentally stumble on child pornography. I've yet to deliberately stumble on it either, because I, er, haven't gone looking for it.
The most accidental thing that ever happened to me was while demonstrating the internet (for a friend, as will become obvious), I typed www.boyzone.com into the URL bar, expecting to be led to the official web site of a certain Irish boy band, only to find a bunch of oiled-up naked men interacting with each other in a naughty way.
And that's it.
The irony is, of course, that most illegal material isn't hosted on web sites - it's on newsgroups and peer-to-peer networks, which this 'initiative' will do nothing whatsoever about.
Not only is it utterly pointless, it's also ineffective and, most importantly, will push my already ridiculously high World of Warcraft ping into the stratosphere.
Most worryingly of all, the lunatic Christian fringe is already planning to expand the scope of the filter. In other countries this would be merely an annoyance, but both of Australia's major parties have large support from what can only be described as extremist Christian groups.
Today's highlight of hilarity is a not-too-bright journo stumbling on paedophilia while, er, searching on the word 'paedophilia'.
Also, I managed to find a video of the filter in action.
Apologies for the overuse of italics of rage.
Minister for Fucking Things Up, Stephen Conroy, announced yesterday that in light of the forthcoming National Broadband Network offering a gnat's pube chance of Australia having first world internet, he would be implementing a compulsory internet filter.
The reasoning behind the compulsory internet filter was to stop people accidentally stumbling on child pornography.
Let's re-read that again. Accidentally stumbling on child pornography.
Now I don't mean to brag, but I've been bumbling around the web since 1995, and I have yet to accidentally stumble on child pornography. I've yet to deliberately stumble on it either, because I, er, haven't gone looking for it.
The most accidental thing that ever happened to me was while demonstrating the internet (for a friend, as will become obvious), I typed www.boyzone.com into the URL bar, expecting to be led to the official web site of a certain Irish boy band, only to find a bunch of oiled-up naked men interacting with each other in a naughty way.
And that's it.
The irony is, of course, that most illegal material isn't hosted on web sites - it's on newsgroups and peer-to-peer networks, which this 'initiative' will do nothing whatsoever about.
Not only is it utterly pointless, it's also ineffective and, most importantly, will push my already ridiculously high World of Warcraft ping into the stratosphere.
Most worryingly of all, the lunatic Christian fringe is already planning to expand the scope of the filter. In other countries this would be merely an annoyance, but both of Australia's major parties have large support from what can only be described as extremist Christian groups.
Today's highlight of hilarity is a not-too-bright journo stumbling on paedophilia while, er, searching on the word 'paedophilia'.
Also, I managed to find a video of the filter in action.
Apologies for the overuse of italics of rage.