Good News from the War on Webs

[_fustian]

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Lamer Senator and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's ever-expanding plan to cripple the country's internets (a policy supported by around 6% of Australians) has been blocked in the Senate by the independent Senator for the Murray-Darling, Nick Xenophon

Comments

[strangedave]

I don't quite have the Ages faith that now Xenophon has spoken against it, it's all over. Particularly as I don't particularly trust Xenophon not to change his mind, or negotiate some sort of partial version, Xenophon is a committed political horse trader. Nevertheless, it is good news. He hasn't blocked it in the Senate yet - there is no legislation before the house, and non-announced, and we aren't even yet certain that Conroy will take a legislative path to getting the plan through (though EFAs legal advice is much the same as Minchin's, that attempts to push it through without legislation will be legally dubious).

And I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- referring to Labor as Lamer just comes across as school yard. Why do you want to sound as if you have the political sophistication of a 12 year old? It belongs in the same category as calling Windows Winblows and other such rhetorical gems, and is beneath you.

[_fustian]

I don't quite have the Ages faith that now Xenophon has spoken against it, it's all over.

It's the wishing that makes it so - and the publicising that makes it embarrassing to step back from.

referring to Labor as Lamer just comes across as school yard

Annoys true believers = win.

[accy]

Annoys true believers = win.

Wow if that's the level at which you want to engage in political discourse that is truly discouraging.

[_fustian]

To quote James Morrow, "[T]he satirist believes that the first step in ameliorating a social ill is naming it accurately." Get back to me when the ALP's IT policy no longer looks like it was made up in the schoolyard.