Help! My Government Wants To Censor My Internets you hadn’t
heard, the Federal Government of Australia (where SitePoint is
based) is planning legislation that will force ISPs to filter
the websites that Australians will be allowed to access.  The
filter will block access to every website on a ‘blacklist’ – a
list of websites that is controlled by the government and kept
secret. I am not making this up – it’s really happening.  Why a
democratically elected government would do this is difficult to
get your head around when you work on the Web every day. For me,
it’s not that I don’t understand the goal the government is
trying to achieve, or why they’re trying to achieve it. I have
three kids of my own who I love more than words, and I want to
protect them just like any parent should. And I find
particularly abhorrent the suggestion that my opposition to the
filter means I don’t care for my kids. This insinuation alone
has cost this government my vote at the election later this
year.  The reason I feel so stron