You do that… I’m off to invest in some storage companies…

I saw first hand what living under the Stasi was like, and I find this proposal truly scary.

They have been censoring media for years (wasn’t until massive revolts against book censorship anything was really done) we are still at risk of sharing any views that aren’t in a political context (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1489465.htm, Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth). And more recently the internet filter proposed.

Aboriginals were oppressed for years and still are treated as second class citizens. We stole their children in a misguided attempt to assimilate them in our society. Murdered quite a few when we tried to settle here.

I’m not saying we don’t have a great country, but I hardly find stuff like a step backwards, its more like a bad smell that’s been around for years and then finding something dead sitting behind the fridge.

We just need to accept it is a disgusting mess in front of us and just clean it up.

Let us make some progress against misguided law creation.

Go stick your head in a bucket of cold water and wake up.

There are some many laws that you can be made guilty of breaking if the police cared to do so.

Not a single person should be held on the assumption that they are guilty until proven innocent, this is exactly what these sorts of proposals do.

The Green’s presently stand up for freedom, but would they do that if they actually took power? Unlikely. Power corrupts, always has done.

You cannot later on reveal the SSL session key, because you never knew what it was.

Overseas in Japan? Who would just hand it to the USA.

Overseas in China? Russia? e-Stonia?

Governments seem to love having fearful citizens, who will permit laws like this to be passed.

You know what else? With the NBN we can defeat and circumvent these things EASIER and quicker too. yeah you really didn’t think that on through did you? durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

+1 NBN.

Anytime you see or hear the government use these words to promote anything, be wary, very wary as to the actual motive behind it. Then go out and educate everyone as to the true consequences of what will happen once this law gets passed.

People of Australia, following in the footsteps of the US is NOT a good thing, specially in this case.

Quite often with these sort of things, the agency wants the increased powers but doesn’t want the responsibility that goes with them.

Let’s see how committed they are to this cause and ask them to store all that data. Watch the backpedalling then.

See how they go when it’s their problem