Reply #44: I don't think this is really about protecting kids [View All]

[moggie]

After all, they're not suggesting that only parents will be eligible for this free service. And if the government wanted to encourage the use of filtering software, wouldn't it be better to give people vouchers which they could exchange for such software? That would foster competition between software providers, allow parental choice, and allow childless adults to wank themselves into a coma if that's what they want.

This will establish a two-tier Internet. Freedom and speed for people with money, while poor folks get a hobbled experience: slow, sanitised, with dangerous material like sex education and certain political stuff stripped out.