Comments on: Stephen Conroy: Our sneering, sarcastic, patronising, grudge-bearing minister for filtering the internet

By: chi

chi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:54:13 +0000

the dream police, they are inside of my head.Wait! No they reside in parliament instead!Have a lovely(cencored) day every one
Chi

By: Gaz

Gaz — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:24:31 +0000

I wish someone would hurry up and shoot him. Australia is fast becoming a laughing stock, we might think we are a developed western democracy but the rest of the world disagrees. Even the Chinese are laughing at us, and for good reason.

By: Michal

Michal — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:41:04 +0000

Hey all, just hope that COnroy doesn’t interbreed with that family First fellah, waht’s his name, er, Fielding. A flat earther, creationist, techo-nut

By: Dave from Sydney

Dave from Sydney — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:12:46 +0000

Conroy and Wong are the worst ministers. The rest seem mediocre through to some very good ones. It’s not a bad first term ministry: I hink the Hawke one of 1983 was probably the best (though the 1949 Menzies comes pretty close)…

By: Anthony S

Anthony S — Mon, 31 May 2010 13:16:09 +0000

Sorry to hear that you’ve only learned how deep that rabbit hole goes Tim, but I’m glad that you’ve come to the realisation.

That said, I can understand why you would have missed it as he’s only been beeping so hard on my BS radar because I’m so fond of studying technology and how people interact with it. The filter just simply fails technically in so many ways, it doesn’t even merit the moral and ethical arguments that swirl around it. The icing on the cake is making ISPs pay for most of the stupidity.

I’m really stuck for who I’m voting for this year: The party that breaks all it’s promises once in government, the one that breaks it even before it gets into government or the one that doesn’t have to take responsibility for any of it’s promises… so much variety!

@Jim Couper: Seriously man, do you want a straw to suck up a bit harder? You didn’t need to be cynical to see this coming, he’s been like this for at least 6 months with his filter performances and lack of NBN details.

@Phil Collins: Hmm, how about:
-not creating another potential Telcom to Telstra scenario in the NBN.
-Programs to encourage venture capital for things that don’t involve Bricks, digging crap out of the ground or growing things on it would be nice.
-Some indication that the interactive media market does actually involve people above the age of 18, and helping society accordingly.
-Not relying on the ABC to be the only real antidote to the commercial channels.

Oh, I’m sorry, you weren’t actually asking a question were you.

By: chi

chi — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:41:00 +0000

what does filtered mean please?Error?

By: A

Mon, 31 May 2010 04:10:43 +0000

—Error!!!—This message has been filtered

By: chi

chi — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:53:52 +0000

flipped out so called god fearin folk like this slightly green puddle of fleghm need to understand that we all face our own moral choices on an ongoing basis and that having uncle screwball squeeze your shoulder when things are a little suspect is unsavoury to say the least.
power corrupts (not always)dear ones

Love and always fun

Chi

By: Phil Collins

Phil Collins — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:52:17 +0000

Anyone here prepared to comment without being jaded by the filter?
As James above says, this is standard operations for Estimates (and be careful before you give the Senators asking the questions too much credit).
Additionally, anyone here like to propose some solutions for reforming the telco and media sector other than tax handouts for small online marketing and advertising outfits? Apparently a national investment in broadband, and taking spectrum back from lazy broadcasters to put to good use for future services is not good enough. Thought not…

By: Sarah Miles

Sarah Miles — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:55:44 +0000

Conroy has his own religiously motivated agenda to push through and he cares not a jot about what the Australian public want.

By: SHG

SHG — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:33:03 +0000

A technologically-ignorant religious-nut union heavy. What’s not to love?

By: James

James — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:30:33 +0000

It’s senate estimates though… It’s the way they always attack each other… The whole circus usually involves the opposition making cheap political shots at those that are not protected by parliamentary privilege, and those who can go to JAIL for providing incorrect information…

I have read some, but not all, of the transcript, and it appears to be like any other usual senate estimates. Opposition Senator asks inappropriate question to a public servant – and then the Minister (or Minister representing the Minister) steps in, usual political repartee commences…

While I agree some of his comments are a bit inappropriate – I wouldn’t say that it’s any different to the way that the majority of other Minister’s have probably acted at some point in time…

(By the way, it hasn’t been my intention for this post to be defending him or anything – I’ve just watched and read a lot of trasncripts…)

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:05:55 +0000

At least he’s got God on his side..

By: David

David — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:03:16 +0000

Election coming up – Rudd is no fool, if he thinks that Conroy is a liability he will ditch him (unless Rudd goes first)

By: Mortimer

Mortimer — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:54:13 +0000

i find the perhaps-mistaken concept that someone behind the scenes has some persuading dirt on him to be far more entertaining.