Update: Internet Censorship Trials in Oz
by Kismo Tuesday, Dec 23 2008, 10:38pm
national / social/political / commentary

Communications Minister, Stephen ‘errand boy’ Conroy -- who couldn’t make an accurate decision to save his life -- is the latest Oz politician to adopt feeble American semantic tricks in order to dupe an unwary public. Conroy released new information, at the eleventh hour, that he intends to include filters for P2P and Torrent applications, which are primarily used to download movie and music files!

fetch the filter, boy!

The ‘cat is out of the bag;’ that inclusion is the direct result of pressure from large American Entertainment Corporations including of course Rupert Murdoch’s group of Companies – what an amazing coincidence Mr Conroy! Are we surprised that Murdoch’s pet government complies with his demands, NO! But Conroy’s actions do raise questions/issues of unrepresentative government – democracy is defined as MAJORITY rule not rule by elite minority interests.

There is no doubt that Conroy and his clueless, lackey boss, Kevin 07, are feeling the pressure from opposition to their almost universally despised, unAustralian, censorship policy – the political fallout will no doubt be severe in the future. However, we should not forget who actually placed our spineless Labor Party in power, should we, Rupert?

Available filtering technologies are NOTORIOUSLY INACCURATE and are far from suited for the intended purpose, however, the hapless Conroy has been advised to juggle semantics in the vain hope of duping the public; he now refers to his trials and imprecise technologies as, “filtering SOLUTIONS” [emphasis added].

We advise the use of a good dictionary regarding the term ‘solution.’ Conroy’s inept and doomed to failure censorship policies could be described in numerous colourful ways but at no stretch could they be remotely described as, ‘solutions’ – tell it to the Americans, you lamer!

Conroy said the government “understands that the potential extent of ISP filtering is inherently related to the technical capabilities of filtering solutions … The government is currently testing the effectiveness of these technical solutions in the current live trial.”