Kogen internet filter - keeping our portals safe from spams

Conroy delays internet filter bill - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Senator Conroy says if the filter was brought in, he would consider allowing child pornography websites to be left online for a short time to catch people maintaining or using them.

Conroy delays internet filter bill - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Conroy's perennial confusion is showing here:
Firstly, if the police need to view a blacklisted site they will use a proxy, like everyone else.
Secondly, child abuse material is traded via P2P networks (I'm trying to speak slowly for you, Senator).
Thirdly, so you admit that it will hamper police work?

Virtual tumbleweeds blow across NBN discussion website

Perhaps it's an idea just a bit ahead of its time.

A web discussion page established by the government to debate the recommendations of a study into the national broadband network has attracted just six brief contributions in its first week online.

The site, hosted by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy uses a wiki format to encourage users to proffer their thoughts on the implementation study as part of a broader public consultation.

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"Ahead of its time"... really? Nothing new about government obfuscation and double speak.

What's the point of talking to Senator Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy? He will only listen to the religious right, his pet techs and the people who are spruiking the net filtering panacea.

He doesn't speak to or for people making a living online. I suspect he's never even met a netizen. I am part of the digital economy. I find the Senator's ignorance is disturbing. He's any industry's nightmare. A politician who is completely oblivious to his portfolio's needs and wishes and unwilling to listen to industry experts is incompetence at it's most dangerous.

The site mentioned site looks like it is designed to serve two purposes:
1) give other non-netizens a place to vent
2) create the appearance of consultation.
A third purpose would be to waste millions of dollars... but that serves no purpose.

The one piece of information that I really want is when the Senator is up for election. That is a piece of data I can hang my hat on.

The Government's 'Wiki'

Support fading for Government's internet filter

Support for the Federal Government's proposed mandatory internet filtering program is waning, with a study revealing that fewer people back the move.

Earlier this week Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said a re-elected Labor government would not expand the proposed internet censorship.

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"... re-elected Labor government would not expand the proposed internet censorship."
Is Conroy-Speak for Labor will expand the filtered list or he hasn't fully disclosed what will be on the list, like Rudd didn't really talk about the filter before the election. It was there but it was buried.