[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[Alex Satrapa]

On 12/08/2010, at 12:28 , Hal Ashburner wrote:

> Has anyone been bothered to look at who is courting family first for preference deals and so on and how?

Mainly the Australian Christian Lobby, who sent out a bunch of questions to various political parties containing such gems as the following:

> Internet safety
> Recent Government trials have shown that blocking Refused Classification (RC) material at the ISP level is technically feasible. Will your Party commit to the filtering of RC material at the ISP level to provide a safer internet environment for children? Some ISPs already provide commercial filtering products for parents to protect children from legal but otherwise harmful internet content. What would your Party do to encourage wider availability of such services?

So nevermind that it's only filters themselves that have been shown to be technically feasible (filters being different to "blocking RC material"), nevermind the blatant assumption that ISP filters will stop nasty people grooming your children, the ACL then jumps into the assumption that if you do nothing to make filtering more widely available, you're evil.

The Greens declined to answer this question because of the number of false assumptions inherent within the question itself. The ACL interpreted this lack of answer as an indication that The Greens are evil and anti-family.