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Australian Internet Filtering(Quotes)

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“When governments start covering the eyes and ears of the whole nation, however, there is a real problem. We only need to look at those governments that have taken it to the extreme and burnt books to understand that. But there are more subtle ways to inhibit the flow of ideas that we need to be just as alert to.”
-- Kate Lundy, Australian Labor Party Senator SMH

"Don’t shrink from a new technology just because it may be subject to criminal abuse. Exploit its strengths, while controlling its weaknesses. This will be the way to survive in an increasingly competitive world."
--Dr. P.N. Grabosky Australian Institute of Criminology

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
-- Adolf Hitler

"It is not the function of Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
- Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Judge

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American Statesman

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real. Somewhere in their upbringing they were shielded against the total facts of our experience. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
Charles Bukowski

"The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes."
-- Winston Churchill

"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice."
-- Holbrook Jackson

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied upon, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about. Such is government, such is justice, such is morality."
-Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
- Granville Hicks

"Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom."
- Frank Zappa

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
- Clare Booth Luce

"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The Net interprets censorship as damage...and routes around it."
- John Gilmore

"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Public discussion is a political duty. The great menace to freedom is an inert people." - Judge Louis Brandeis

"Dissent is the mark of freedom." - Jacob Bronowski

"In a democracy, personal liberties are rarely diminished overnight. Rather, they are lost gradually, by acts of well-meaning people, with good intentions, amid public approval. But the subtle loss of freedom is never recognised until the crisis is over and we look back in horror. And then it is too late." - Judge Andrew Napolitano

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought." - Graham Greene

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom." - Albert Einstein

"Dissent is most necessary just when it is hardest to voice." - George Monbiot

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." - Michael Parenti

"Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty." - Shami Chakrabarti

“...let’s say it’s a trial of refrigerators, and uh, we’ve found one refrigerator that didn’t cool the meat.” — Jim Wallace.


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