Letters to the editor - Internet Censorship

[heresy]

I've seen a few threads about letters to the editor.

Just read this weekends Australian (19/20 Dec)
The letters to the Editor page contained 5 letters responding to the Internet Filter and Labor's plan to filter out all material refused classification....

The three letters against were written by alleged 'citizens'. I did a quick google search on their names and to my surprise

David Everard - Australian Christian Lobby Vic Executive
Gabrielle Walsh - Australian Family Association, Nat Sec
Joe Lopez - Australian Family Association, Secretary

These three did not disclose that they were from Christian lobby groups, not only as members, but executive members.

scum bags. I hope and pray the filter is rejected...

[The Irreverent Mr Black]

Interesting! I hope EFA is onto this astroturfing attempt.

[kencooke]

EFA ... ??

[The Irreverent Mr Black]

Yes, EFA

[The Irreverent Mr Black]

Wow! Lots of new readers here! Perhaps you could let us know what you think of the AFA forums? Don't be shy now!

[weez]

Black, the new readers are most likely coming from Twitter. I saw this post linked in #nocleanfeed.

[The Irreverent Mr Black]

Thanks for that, Weez! You're a champ.

[weez]

no wux. I passed it along to the presently holidaying Jonathan Holmes of Media Watch:

weezmgk
@jonaholmesMW bet this makes you sad that you're on xmas break: http://is.gd/5vy6m #nocleanfeed

BTW, much praise to heresy for the score. Nice one.

[dimel]

Originally Posted by heresy

I've seen a few threads about letters to the editor.

Just read this weekends Australian (19/20 Dec)
The letters to the Editor page contained 5 letters responding to the Internet Filter and Labor's plan to filter out all material refused classification....

The three letters against were written by alleged 'citizens'. I did a quick google search on their names and to my surprise

David Everard - Australian Christian Lobby Vic Executive
Gabrielle Walsh - Australian Family Association, Nat Sec
Joe Lopez - Australian Family Association, Secretary

These three did not disclose that they were from Christian lobby groups, not only as members, but executive members.

scum bags. I hope and pray the filter is rejected...

We can all pray, can't we?
But seriously I have frequently noticed that letters of bias (political and otherwise) are usually written by fundamentalist individuals of the far far right! For a while, during a very heated political debate between writers of letters to editors on the Sunshine Coast, and after I wrote a letter suggesting that all such letters should include, if not a name, at least party affiliations, letters did include names and political associations but times have changed.... those on the fringes of reality and mental stability are at it again!