Australians finally remember who they are

Well it took them long enough, but common sense has to a certain extent prevailed Down Under  That harebrained scheme I first commented on here and here nearly four years ago to impose Chinese-style filtering on a national level has, according to the Associated Press, bitten the Outback dust.

Good news.  And good riddance to an idea that I'm sure actually embarrassed many Australians.  To be sure, protecting kids from exploitation by child pornographers must remain a priority not only in Australia but everywhere else.  However, even back when this proposal first emerged, most of the garbage it was targeted against wasn't distributed via the World Wide Web anyway-and it still isn't. 

Like terrorists, child predators are nothing if not resourceful.  Law enforcement must, therefore, respond in kind.  Undercover busts of the sort at which U. S. authorities have become so adept, coupled with mercilessly tough sentences that will strike the fear of God into these perverts and prove we're serious about this, have done and will continue to do much more than resorting to tactics better expected of besieged despots and tenuous totalitarian regimes-tactics that in the end, it should be remembered, neither quelled the Arab Spring nor dissuaded the naming of a dissident as a Nobel laureate.