Comments | pezzae: Ask Senator Conroy to 'Please explain'!

pezzae

Ask Senator Conroy to 'Please explain'!

Mar 26, 2009 10:08

This is our chance to ask Senator Conroy to explain his plans to censor the internet ( Read more... )

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etfb March 25 2009, 23:33:18 UTC

Never mind increasing the money to the existing child protection services! It would be enough of an improvement if they would stop cutting the budget to the Australian Federal Police’s Online Child Sexual Exploitation Team, which just took a 2.8 million dollar hit to help finance this idiotic firewall...

pezzae March 26 2009, 02:30:42 UTC

Ooh, I hope someone asks about that!
It's so strange, isn't it, that Conroy looks less and less like someone actually trying to prevent child abuse and more and more like someone who wants to censor information and opinions he doesn't agree with...

traeemery March 26 2009, 01:50:58 UTC

What I can't seem to find out is who decides what is black listed? Are they representatives of the public like the AG's Classification Board for film and video/PC games? Or are the nameless public servants?

etfb March 26 2009, 01:54:09 UTC

Guess.

pezzae March 26 2009, 02:31:20 UTC

Get on the Q&A site and ask - that's certainly something we need to know!

traeemery March 26 2009, 03:16:51 UTC

Have registered the question and I'll be watching to see if it asked.

etfb March 26 2009, 03:10:14 UTC

Stilgherrian says they've received a thousand questions already, just on the censorship thing. That's approximately 20 questions for every normal ABC viewer...