[AusNOG] Conroy censoring dissent?

[Mark Newton]

I addressed this very topic last night in the first half of this
post:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=967413&p=45#r883

Anyone trying to discuss this topic with Conroy should demand better.
It's simply not acceptable for him to debase the public dialogue in
this way.


    - mark
      [ speaking on behalf of myself ]

On 24/10/2008, at 3:02 PM, Julien Goodwin wrote:

> On 24/10/08 14:48, Bevan Slattery wrote:
>> PS:  And for the record, I (and my old Infopro/iSeek business  
>> partner)
>> brought N2H2 filtering into Australia in 1998 which provided  
>> filtering
>> for somewhere near 5000 schools (almost half the entire schools in
>> Australia).  So before someone suggests I am for Kiddie Porn, then I
>> would suggest they think very hard before they try to throw that  
>> 'fear
>> grenade' my way in a lazy, uneducated and almost 'McCarthy'ism'  
>> "Reds in
>> the Bed" attempt to discredit my understanding of this very complex
>> issue.
>
> I'd just like to agree with this, my employer[1] provides (as part  
> of a
> much larger product) web filtering for over 840 thousand[2] users
> Australia wide, covering thousands of primary and secondary schools.
>
> This proposal could, in theory, give us more business, but we still
> think it's stupid and unjustified.
>
> This message is only my personal views, as a proper response is  
> still to
> come from the corporate people.
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
>
> 1: Editure Education Services, included here because it's so easy to  
> use
> Google
>
> 2: That's not counting students using our other product that is only
> used for the entire public school system of one state.
>
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