[Op-ed] What's legitimate about Senator Conroy's proposed internet filter?

DEFINE "legitimate''.

Does it mean lawful in a purely legalistic sense? Or perhaps, according to one definition in the Macquarie Dictionary, "of the normal or regular type or kind''?

Then give me a definition of ``normal or regular''. And while you're doing that, try not to be in any way subjective - do not frame your definition from a purely personal perspective of right and wrong, normal or regular. As if.

I can guarantee you the answers would be as broad and varied as the tapestry of Australian society. One woman's normal would be another's aberrant; one man's pornography will be another man's art.

Which brings us, yet again, to the ongoing debate surrounding the Federal Government's planned internet filtering regime: a scheme which would see mandatory filtering of all banned or objectionable content at an Internet Service Provider level.