It has occurred to me that the Australian Internet Filter is being debated at such a high level that the average person will not understand what the fuss is about. Child pornography is bad and the filter will stop that badness (so you’ve been told), which means you’re either pro-filter or child pornographers(1).  This is not the fault of the average person; by keeping actual intelligent discourse at bay via whinging and bluster, both the pro- and anti- camps are doing all parties(2) a disservice.  Time to change the game by framing the argument how true, thoughtful, participating, REAL Australians will understand.  By comparing it to booze.

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