Like surfing the web ? Stay away from Australia!

Our so called New Leadership dragged Australia further into the online dark ages today.

Stephen Conroy our enlightened Digital Communications Minister announced broad brush filtering of Internet content for all Australians.

As Gary Barber puts it, when it comes to Kiddy Porn, as a father of two young ones I'm absolutely supportive of everything we can do in this regard.

But the way this has been announced (with no online communications / dialog), the lack of detail and the inconvenient truth in the practicalities of filtering leave me very concerned with our New Leadership when it comes to dealing with the digital industry.

We've already seen a lack of urgency in dealing with the bigger issue of being able to access the internet in Australia, the lack of urgency in moving the digital media content industry forward with the digital television switch over being pushed by to 2013 (who's driving that agenda I wonder?) and the then these ACMA age restriction rules coming into force on January 20th but now the firewall

Stephen, I urge you to engage with people that actually deeply understand this industry, discuss and collaborate for a better digital Australia. Move things forward not backwards, right now it all looks backwards