I want to come to it from the position of privacy. As a minister I have to follow a whole heap of privacy rules in my congregation that have a compliance cost. Even though we are supposed to be a united body, intimate community of believers - I am not allowed to pass on a phone number to someone else in the church without their permission. Now, that might actually be a reasonable idea - but how can someone who has filmed someone else having sex, without their permission, and then broadcast it over the internet - have not broken any laws!!!!
If I can got to jail for giving a phone number to another member of a church fellowship, how can this not be illegal? Is this catch up? The internet moves too fast for the law. Is it just the law being an ass - or is it the stupidity of our modern society where we have rules that strain out the gnats, but swallow the camels? Privacy rules, and blue card rules, that burden the local, community, volunteer groups, while not doing that much to actually solve the problems?
Yes this is a rant, but I need a place to let out the steam! Having mentioned the 'QLD' Blue Card system - is this the best way to combat pedophillia? A huge bureaucracy that makes anyone wanting to help with kids have to go through a rigmarole that only tells us about people who've already been caught? Surely we could spend the money more pointedly. Confronting education programs across all schools. Preventative Programs. Has anyone does any studies of the effectiveness of the Blue Card.
OK, I'm over it, but the 'Kate's' of this world are not. Poor kate.
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