"The government should think very carefully before introducing barriers to voting," said its chief executive, Katie Ghose.
Furthermore, "this legislation introduces barriers to competition and will further complicate the aim of reducing CO2 emissions," he said.
Yet in Australia we have a government whose only public health policy, time and time again, is to introduce barriers to prevention and the early detection of disease.
A manager at one firm in Europe privately muses that Germany, France and other countries might introduce barriers to IT imports to counter the threat to their domestic employment.
"The pendulum on renewable energy is swinging from heavily subsidizing mainly large centralized installations," he continued, "to the other extreme of introducing barriers to the development of competition from decentralized renewable energy — which is the future of electricity systems worldwide".
"Introducing barriers, like fences or other deterrents, may lead people to undertake more dangerous crossings and further place the refugees at the mercy of smugglers," says Adrian Edwards of the UNHCR.Other European countries have erected similar barriers to deter immigrants from Africa and the Middle East.
"We've reached a point where we're very confident in our ability to differentiate between improper use of Tinder versus proper use, so we're starting to introduce barriers that prevent users from behaving a certain way," said Tinder cofounder and CEO Sean Rad.
Given the increasingly important role the World Wide Web plays as an information source, and yet with the continuing problems that certain individuals, particularly those with disabilities and those using 'non-standard' Web browsing technology, it is vital that web resource providers be aware of design features which introduce barriers affecting the accessibility of on-line information.
In the 1980s BSA developed its Youth Protection program, to educate youth, leaders and parents about the problem as a whole, and to introduce barriers to sexual abuse of children using the Scout program to reach victims.
