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Labor’s plan to censor the internet has hit another snag, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority failing to keep its blacklist secret—and revelations that the blacklist contains a Queensland dentist, a canteen operator and a number of other legal websites.
While it is easy to laugh at the government’s seemingly limitless incompetence when it comes to the internet filter plan, we must not lose sight of the very real problem mandatory filtering seeks to address.
Whatever the civil libertarians and the blogosphere may say, we all have a responsibility to ensure that children cannot access information about this one dentist.
The lesson in Labor’s ongoing failure is that parents are the first and last line of defence against Dr John Golbrani’s “orthodontic solutions” and “amalgam removal”, whatever they are.
We all want the internet to be a place for the free exchange of ideas, but images of Dr Golbrani and his pleasant, professional team and their clean, modern offices are surely an abuse of that freedom.
Today’s leak is a wake-up call to parents. Labor will never get its act together on protecting our kids online. Talk to your children about the dangers they face from online dentists. And all the other perfectly legal sites on the list.
