BL> It amuses me that the so-called highway already exists,
BL> developing freely all by itself world-wide, and the poor
BL> pollies are running around doing their best to stop it -
BL> screaming pornography and child sex and Christ knows what!

JG> Yeah, Bob Carr is a fuckwit - "We'll deny access to those areas".
JG> That's not really possible if you want to give the kids a chance
JG> to find the information they're looking for by themselves.

Dunno, it is possible, not that I agree with doing it tho.

JG> Of course you can feed them the information, but then you can
JG> do that with books without spending millions on connections to
JG> the Internet and then denying access.

Cant agree with that at all. Thats a much bigger step down,
particularly the 'with books' part. It would be feasible to have say
a system with some grouping which ensure that those in the 'filth free'
bit being filth free and still be heaps above a print based system.

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