If you thought there would be a new dispensation for censorship with a change in government from the extreme conservatism of the Howard government and its love affair with right wing reactionary religious bigots to the Rudd Alternative Liberal Party, think again!

For those of us who watched the film on ABC on Sunday night 6 January 2008 called the Chatterley Affair, many memories of the censorship of the post-war periods in the UK, USA, South Africa, Canada, the USA and other so-called "liberal democracies" came flooding back as we remembered with horror what had been perpetrated on us by bigoted right-wing reactionary religious-affiliated governments.

That was the 1960s, this is the 2000s, and we are still in thrall to the same forces of darkness now as we were then despite the Internet and all the modern technology we have today.

Senator Conroy is intending to force ISPs to filter porn to prevent children from having access to it. What is porn, you may well ask? And did the censorship of bygone days stop children from gaining access to so-called porn? Of course not.

Of course the pornography of wars and violence to which we are subjected by the governments with which we are "governed" and which we see all day and every day on our tv screens, computer games and other pieces of technology, are not able to be censored In any event, as everyone knows, including the youngest of the savvy technology-literate youth of today, there are ways of circumventing all of the above, and the time and money spent on trying to stop what governments are trying to stop could well be spent on educating young people about the dangers of believing in the religions with which they are bombarded on a daily basis, and thus there would be an understanding of the nature of sex and all its attributes, so that there would be no moralising on the subject and the taboos would diminish and ultimately disappear.

It is astonishing that religions still control the mindsets of the educators,  politicans, ethicists, so many in all walks of life to the extent that they are blinded to the realities of life as we live it.

There are, as the saying goes, none so blind as those who will not see. And therein lies the tragedy of governments in 2008. Democracy and human rights are not for the likes of us - they are reserved for the theoreticians, and we can just forget about being allowed to view, read, hear what we like - nanny and big brother will be watching you, or an ISP near you.

Totalitarian governments are just a step away!