Stuff like this always draws the conspiracy theorists out of the
woodwork—which isn’t too say it’s a negative thing—but for once I
think I have tamer views on the subject.
As stupid as some people seem to be, I don’t think Stephen Conroy is
stupid enough to not get it by now. In fact he probably already
understood that his clean feed scheme was not going to work properly—
difficult to implement, risky to maintain, and have a number of
adverse side effects—but as things go in politics he was too far in to
admit he was wrong. Too much tax payer money had already been spent on
the idea which had been promised to the Australian people under a
Labour government at election time.
In the end it’s a pathetic political episode: it would essentially be
the political end of Mr. Conroy if he admits he was wrong now, so he’s
going to try and play this out, although the chances of it ending well
for him are dwindling daily. In the meantime we get to suffer from his
egoism and possibly (let’s hope it doesn’t come to it) the clean feed.
My 2 cents. (:
Have an awesome week all.
—Pascal
On 30/11/2008, at 11:36 PM, Andrew R wrote:
And adding my 2 cents worth…
This is part of the grand conspiracy. The panic about porn / bomb
instructions on the web knee jerk is a smoke screen. What the
government wants to do is control how it’s citizen access media and
hence ideas. They love the traditional mass media because it’s easy
to control and run by cooperation that have a vested interest
keeping the old paradigms. They hate the web, email, etc because
it’s hard to control and hence subvert how ideas spread. Goverements
all over the place have been trying to do this for a long time.
It’s stupid, won’t work and is going to cost us millions. What will
happen is lots of folks will subscript to OS encrypted tunnelling
services. The outcome will be lots of encrypted web traffic which
will be a lot worse if you’re trying to track the activities of bomb
makers and paedophiles. And it is going to chew up money that would
be more productively spend improving the speed of the infrastructure
(and not slowing it down).
This is nearly a dumb that idea that Mr Keating had of sell
exclusive rights to provide Australian net access to Microsoft!
Andrew
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