Australia Backwards - Yet Again

Now i think it has been a while since i really had a whinge, But i think this really warrants it.

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As usual with the Australian government they have decided to try and limit the amount of content Australian and the international Internet users are allowed to view.

Google has really summed this whole attempt of running our lives with the comment - "If such advanced permission was required, the Internet would promptly grind to a halt."

How can we allow the Government to limit how and when we search the internet. How can they restrict the details of particular items due to the "possibility" that there may be offensive or copyrighted material.

This leads me to further points which i will not get into at this point for fear of making this entry too big. Needless to say, i believe that the Government and in general the whole "World Goverment" system is backwards in trying to protect us from the 1% of morons and immoral people that could cause problems.

I know that piracy is a major problem, however instead of trying to "block" the problem why not try to work with the people who are pirating the software etc and try to compromise and understand why they are doing so. If major companies like "Redhat" and "Ubuntu Linux" are able to give away their software but still make money why can't some of the music industry work out a way to save money, make it cheaper to purchase the material and therefore reduce the amount of piracy that is happening.