Australian Internet Filtering - Bernadette McMenamin

Bernadette McMenamin

• Founder and CEO of ChildWise
• Vocal supporter of Internet Filtering

Quotes

• http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/wikileaks-expos.html
  • "Every 15-year-old boy in the country is going to be after this porn list,"
  • "The person who's done this should be prosecuted and jailed for effectively disseminating and promoting child pornography."

• http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25100456-5014239,00.html
  • "Yes, there's been an awful lot of vitriol, there's been an awful lot of misinformation, and certainly I think there's been an awful lot of hysteria, and most of that hysteria is not coming from the child protection advocates, but it's coming from all these anonymous bloggers and people that write to you and just call you every name under the sun, and it's not helpful"
  • "I certainly don't spend my day in, day out, lobbying and attacking the opponents of the filtering,"
  • "I think there's probably only a few hundred of you in this country, you're vigorous, you're loud, you're technologically smart, but I still believe that filtering is something we should trial and then leave it up to the public to make that decision."
  • "I don't know why people are so afraid of the trials if you think they're going to be completely ineffective,"
  • "disappointed that you think like that, because I didn't accuse you of being child molesters".
  • "I think it's really incredibly arrogant to call people and those who support internet filtering stupid and the scheme stupid, and it's a very simplistic approach to something that is in discussion by a lot of different people,"
  • "In all the debates, you're not thinking about the children, you're thinking about the internet, you're thinking about the profits, you're thinking about the slowdown, you're thinking about technology – so, yes, it is up to some of us to think about the children."

• http://www.governmentnews.com.au/2009/03/20/article/CNPKRZSWRF.html
  • “extremely disappointed” if the actual list was really leaked.
  • "It’s sad to see that someone with fairly well-advanced technical skills has gone to the trouble of leaking this list just to prove a political point,"
  • "I think that they, whoever they are, should be punished. This is the last thing we need."