[AusNOG] Conroy's net filter still alive and kicking

[Phillip Grasso]

IMHO the Labor's filter policy drove away a lot of support from the IT
industry for the NBN (irrespective if you agree or not on 'how', it put
broadband as a front and center issue), but rather then grabbing headlines
for NBN merits, they had to share that space with the torrent of negative
press associated with the filter.  **** Unless that was their plan, but that
just sounds stupid. ****.

Quite clearly fight battles of multiple fronts wasn't so bright.

Also, putting this totalitarian policies just didn't sound like it
gravitated to labors traditional voter base, but seems like they lost their
identity by trying to win support of the far right (filter, no ets, pro
AFACT stance from conroy, boat policies) while at the same time eroding some
of their traditional support base. Go figure massive swing to greens /
libs/nats. Basically little difference in ideology between those parties
(labor & libs)?



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Vitaly Osipov <vitaly.osipov at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/conroys-net-filter-still-alive-and-kicking-20100910-1540s.html
>
> <Friday rant>
>
> For the life of me I cannot understand what is driving this filter
> thing. I do not believe in altruistic government implementing stuff
> purely for the citizens benefit without additional benefits for the
> industry or the govt itself. Textbook examples are:
>
> e-health = a tool to reduce Medicare fraud
> smart meters = a tool for power distribution companies to tie your
> individual tariffs into spot market (and more)
> NBN = ?  a war with Telstra? a tool to enable the Orwellian scale
> surveillance? Still thinking on this one..
>
> But the filter? Is it pure Christian fundamentalism? Censorship? what?
>
> </Friday rant>
>
>
> Regards,
> Vitaly
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