Mark Newton (of Internode, not the same mob as this story is about) has an opinion piece on the ABC (which I submitted to Slashdot, but still pending...), entitled Filter advocates need to check their facts.
In my observation, it's obvious that the debate has polarised into two camps. One of them is largely populated by people who know what they're talking about and who mostly oppose the ALP's censorship plan;
The other camp includes people who just make lots of mistakes; including Senator Conroy, who claimed that Sweden, the UK, Canada and New Zealand all have similar filter systems as are being proposed.
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Anyway, if Conroy is the worst minister, that's pretty damn bad. After all, Richard Alston, Daryl Williams and Helen Coonan were all communications minister under Johny sticken Howard.
According to Wikipedia, Alston tried "to ban online gambling, and make email forwarding illegal, he was dubbed 'the world's biggest luddite'. [1]".
Maybe this "representative" thing isn't all it's cracked up to be? Anyone up for some Demarchy?
Just to correct everyone and say that Senator Conroy is completely wrong, New Zealand has NO, I repeat NO Government Filtering/Firewall system on our Internet Services.
Yes New Zealand is thinking of having it added to stop downloads of Music and Movies, but the difference between New Zealand Government and Ozzie Government is Our Government listens to it's nation.
Our country will only add these so called filters if Ozzie adds them, but then again if NZ wont have it then chances are the government wont add it.
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Mark Newton (of Internode, not the same mob as this story is about) has an opinion piece on the ABC (which I submitted to Slashdot, but still pending...), entitled Filter advocates need to check their facts.
The other camp includes people who just make lots of mistakes; including Senator Conroy, who claimed that Sweden, the UK, Canada and New Zealand all have similar filter systems as are being proposed.
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Anyway, if Conroy is the worst minister, that's pretty damn bad. After all, Richard Alston, Daryl Williams and Helen Coonan were all communications minister under Johny sticken Howard.
According to Wikipedia, Alston tried "to ban online gambling, and make email forwarding illegal, he was dubbed 'the world's biggest luddite'. [1]".
Maybe this "representative" thing isn't all it's cracked up to be? Anyone up for some Demarchy?
Just to correct everyone and say that Senator Conroy is completely wrong, New Zealand has NO, I repeat NO Government Filtering/Firewall system on our Internet Services. Yes New Zealand is thinking of having it added to stop downloads of Music and Movies, but the difference between New Zealand Government and Ozzie Government is Our Government listens to it's nation. Our country will only add these so called filters if Ozzie adds them, but then again if NZ wont have it then chances are the government wont add it.