Australia continues to treat its citizens as children

Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy has vowed to push on with his controversial internet filtering scheme, despite a barrage of criticism.

Senator Conroy told The Sun-Herald that internet advocacy groups such as GetUp! were ''deliberately misleading'' the Australian public about the scheme, which will refuse classification to illegal and socially unacceptable web pages. The legislation, which was expected to be passed before Parliament rises in June, has been delayed until the second half of the year while the government fine-tunes it.

The government's $128.8 million Cyber Safety policy includes forcing internet service providers to block access to a secret blacklist of website pages identified as ''refused classification'' by Australian government bureaucrats.

Hope I get on your list, you creepy little men and women.

Here Mr. Conroy shows himself either to be an epic liar, or just has complete contempt for the public:

Yet Senator Conroy said ''blocking material is not considered to be censorship''.

''This filter is really not changing much, except that the blacklist of website pages will be mandatory.''

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