80% of Australians are in favour of the Federal Government’s proposed mandatory internet filter according to a new nationwide telephone poll commissioned by Hungry Beast.
The ABC show returns tonight and tackles the subject of the proposed internet filter.
Last week McNair Ingenuity Research asked a range of questions about issues relating to the proposed internet filter to 1,000 people. All states, territories and demographics were represented in the survey.
But the Hungry Beast survey also found that 91% of Australians were in favour of making public the list of websites that would be blocked by the internet filter. This sees the overwhelming majority of the population opposed to the Government’s current plan to keep the list of blocked websites secret.
The ABC show returns tonight at 9pm with an interview with Senator Stephen Conroy.
Liars or cheats, definetly not the truth. Shame, shame, shame; Unaustralian halfwits.
Will it end up like the recent case in Canada where the newspaper ‘The Beaver’ a mainstream regional publication named after the Canadian animal had to change its name?
This suggests that a whole lot more ‘new’ names could be introduced by porn sites to get around the filter.
Theoretically every word in the dctionary could be banned.
It’s amazing isn’t it… We couldn’t believe the results… we swore it would be the opposite. Certainly in my household.
The survey also found however that 90% of tissue manufacturers were against the filter.
Hungry beast how could you! This seems very suspicious and rigged and hope this is is some sort of sick joke!
I can’t tell whether this is legitimate or a hoax like the gullibility poll they did last year.
Hungry Beast just go away. No one watches you and it appears that you a nothing but a mouth piece for a leftist labour government.
Please just go away you boring gits.
The ABC has been and always will be a Labor propaganda machine.
I hope someone explains to Conroy in the interview that the proposed filter is fundamentally flawed and counter productive.
I am sure there is a twist, and they are going to say this is probably how the government is getting their polling results in favour of it.
To me, their credibility just went down the plughole.
This is totally at odds with every other poll that has ever been conducted on this. How did they word the question to get this result?
Ha! Really? That sounds very suspicious to me.
At the moment, we have no idea what the question asked was, so no meaningful analysis can be conducted.
Was the question whether they wanted children looking at porn, or whether they want a government mandated Internet censorship system?
Two different questions which will yield polarising results.
Yes I got the PR from ABC about this one and immediately wrote to Stephen Conroy disputing the polling figures, it is ludicrous that they poll 1000 people supposedly across the age demographic and the call the results for 15,000,00+/- voting age people, it’s a silly as the TV ratings system
“I bet the people surveyed don’t even know what is in the proposed filter …
” (daqua_99)
I’d take it another step and say 99% of people surveyed would absolutely no clue as to the huge impact to their internet speeds of implementing such a feature. I would guarantee that Hungry Beast did not mention this, nor would the ABC. Any survey can conjure the desired results by asking the right question in the right manner.
All it proves is around 80% of the people they surveyed either don’t understand the ramifications or are in the hysterical “Won’t somebody think of the children !!!!!” brigade who don’t care about the ramifications.
I’m surprised this issue wasn’t raised during Q&A with the PM.
Not really a representative sample….1000 out of 22 million…still, oztam is only marginally better.
I bet the people surveyed don’t even know what is in the proposed filter …
I bet these people didnt know that they werent just blocking child porn they are also blocking normal porn and youtube videos
Who’d they survey everyone inside the ABC building?
Just because 8 of the 10 people that they called agreed to have the filter, doesn’t mean that 80% of all Australians are in favour of the filter. What a joke!