Herald comes out against Conroy’s filter plans
The Sydney Morning Herald has become the most high profile media outlet yet to voice its opposition to Stephen Conroy’s plans to filter Australia’s Internet access.
In a leader column today (which doesn’t appear to be available online at the time of posting), the newspaper likens the Rudd government’s attitude to technology to that of 19th century Britain which passed a law that motor vehicles had to be proceeded by someone walking in front of it with a red flag.
The newspaper calls for the government to “abandon this ill-conceived idea”. It says the main reasons are that the scheme will not work, and that it is “an affront to freedom of speech”.
The plan has been receiving increasing opposition. The anti-clean feed campaigners have hijacked Senator Conroy’s Twitter profile as part of their campaign against the project.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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I have published a post that shows the complete absurdity of the Clean Feed rules.
http://notallpoppies.wordpress.....uded-here/
It would have the site from which I sourced the link BANNED – go and have a look, have a laugh and then get every Australian you know to tell Federal Members of Parliament that Australians do not want censorship that would put us amongst the top 10 most censored countries in the world – including Korea and Iran.
But, if we get “clean feed” here is Australia, I would not even get to ask you to look at these photographs, because the site would be BANNED. Now that is censorship!
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