Have your say on the Net Filter

Take part in an IT-media-wide poll and voice your support or opposition to the Labour Party's Net Filtering scheme.

There have been a mess of polls, campaigns and general protests against the ALP's Net Filter scheme, but there's never been a poll quite like this one.

This is a unique, cross-publication poll - hosted neutrally - aiming to get the opinions of arguably the most informed members of the public. It's already being pushed on raft of major IT publications, including news.com.au, SMH, ITWire, LifeHacker and the ABC (well, shortly, on the ABC, at least), and now it's Atomic's turn.

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20 Comments

Dogberry Jul 13, 2010 11:08 AM	It might be more help if the article includes a link to the poll...
Hawkeye Jul 13, 2010 11:14 AM	The poll should be in the body, actually. I can see it...
RaYdeX Jul 13, 2010 11:33 AM	That's not exactly a good poll... For 2 reasons that come to mind. 1. The Filter isn't the only thing I'm concerned about. And being that the Filter is such a godaweful mess, really it's not going to affect my life that much. I can get around it if I want to etc. So it's not the only thing affecting my vote. 2. We don't really know which political parties DO support it, besides Labor, and which actually don't. Do the Liberals support it? I really don't trust them to roll it back if they get into power if it's already come so far. So I voted "No" on the poll, because that's the message I want to send. But really? Depending on many factors, I can definitely see that I could vote for a party that supported the filter.
iamthemaxx Jul 13, 2010 12:01 PM	Jebus, talk about overly simplified. It doesn't take into account what other policies a party might have.
Director Jul 13, 2010 2:13 PM	Forget other policies, any party that wants to control my freedom to read what I want and talk to who I want is tyrannical by it's very actions and it's other policies would probably reflect that disposition as well, and if they didn't then they would be of no consequence anyway.
Hawkeye Jul 13, 2010 2:28 PM	In which case, Maxx, you should answer yes - given that you're obviously willing to consider other policies as more important :)
SceptreCore Jul 13, 2010 2:59 PM	Yeah maxx... it's not rocket surgery.
Argotha Jul 13, 2010 3:29 PM	This is what we like to call. getting the message across to a bunch of people that just don't get it. you make it very obvious to them what you dont want
sm1ddy Jul 13, 2010 4:43 PM	The filter is an awesome idea.
discoInferno Jul 13, 2010 8:29 PM	That's a hell of a lot on No's to a small smattering of Yes's. I had to give it a Yes because there's just no way I can vote for a party lead but Tony Abbott, and Green's votes end up with the ALP anyway. I hate the idea of a mandatory Net Filter as much as anyone, but were it to be voluntary I'd be right behind it. No one can argue that filtering child porn is a bad thing - perhaps not particularly effective - but not necessarily bad. It's the idea that "Government knows best" which I have a fundamental problem with.
alex8337 Jul 13, 2010 10:30 PM	fuck who cares if its over simplified, these political pricks need a 10k high sign lit with neons that can be seen from space to get the message that pissing 'anonymous' off, is a stupid thing to do.
Barbatus Jul 14, 2010 9:25 AM	I don't support the Net Filter at all, but I would rather have Labour in power over the Liberals and Greens so I'm forced to vote for them Net Filter or not.
xtort Jul 14, 2010 4:20 PM	bit of a crap poll but lets hope they get the message. still cant see how they think that a filter will stop child porn. you could block every possible site that contained that sort of stuff and the people who are interested in acquiring it will, and i dare say have found way's around it. unless the government of this country wants to decrypt and inspect all internet traffic (just a slight invasion of privacy!) then the idea should be tossed on the scrap bin. I personally don't want to have all my login info for my banking, email, steam, work etc intercepted and decrypted.
davidald Jul 14, 2010 5:37 PM	Its got more to do with P2P, the child porn issue is to get public backing.
Splatterchops Jul 14, 2010 5:42 PM	It's big brother on a monumental scale. Unacceptable for Australia or anywhere else that calls itself free! I will make zero difference to the number of children abused and is a smokescreen for their own agendas. Anyone who votes for Labor even aside from this is NUTS. Take a good look at the social and financial slide they directly have put this country on!
Splatterchops Jul 14, 2010 5:43 PM	oops IT....I meant IT!
R430R Jul 15, 2010 10:46 AM	It's pathetic that we're "free" and the word "governed" for some reason is oblivious to those in power that it is used in direct contradiction of the word "free" ....this is just one example of why we shouldn't limit what people do regardless...if we take away kiddy porn from the net...where will they go to get their porn? i'm not well versed in the logics of the mentality of a peadophile, but would that mean we have to keep our kids chained between the house and the playground, to know they're safe? I don't actually have kids but plan too and thought it'd be a good point to make. ....HEY wouldn't it be great to get perhaps a genetic disease that makes all rock spiders impotent and computer illiterate...that'd definitely be a death sentence to me haha. and as for P2P, they're pathetic, I hope they realise that apart from the child abuse, the internet filter will only help aussies get poorer and hollywood get richer
azamoth Jul 16, 2010 10:31 PM	I had a massive arguement with a mate of mine because he was seriously stressing that they would filter Australia's internet. I told him and bet him that no such thing could ever exist.
Kastoli Jul 18, 2010 8:32 PM	Wow, seriously? 690 people voted yes...
Kastoli Jul 18, 2010 8:35 PM	Also... Barbatus, i'm in the same position. Hopefully they get the message though.

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