Comments on: Conroy has the Internet filtering report… do we? http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:59:03 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/#comment-29324 Stilgherrian Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:33:18 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1692#comment-29324 <strong>@Akira Doe:</strong> Actually this is an old post. The report was made available on 8 July 2008, just a few days after this original post: <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib310554/isp-level_internet_content_filtering_trial-report.pdf">ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering Trial</a> That said, your point is a valid one. Senator Conroy has committed as recently as last night to release the report on the Phase 2 ("field") trials of Internet filters. The trials are complete but he has not yet received the report. @Akira Doe: Actually this is an old post. The report was made available on 8 July 2008, just a few days after this original post: ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering Trial

That said, your point is a valid one. Senator Conroy has committed as recently as last night to release the report on the Phase 2 (“field”) trials of Internet filters. The trials are complete but he has not yet received the report.

]]> By: Akira Doe http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/#comment-29322 Akira Doe Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:31:23 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1692#comment-29322 If the Government wanted to build an Oil Rig on/at Bondi Beach (probably not the best comparative example to Internet Censorship, but run with me for a moment) and commissioned an Environmental Report to see what impact it would have, received the report, didn't release the commissioned report but instead wrote a report about the report saying it was all good, what would happen? Would that be accepted and allowed to continue by the public? Hell No! They would insist on seeing the actual reports findings, not the padded version from the Government saying "All good mate". Would they even be allowed to conduct the report, get the results and then use the results to say what is an acceptable level of pollution/risk allowing them to set the goal posts where ever they want? Hell No again! That would have to be clearly stated from the get go. So why can they get away with such an underhanded and dishonest tricks with the filtering "trial"? Why was there no mention of the Filtering Policy in the ALP national conference agenda yet it appeared in the ALP National Platform and Constitution 2009? Why are they hiding so much from the public, yes still claiming to be transparent and open? Conroy, I hope you're days of being an incompetent or willingly ignorant Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy are very, very limited. If the Government wanted to build an Oil Rig on/at Bondi Beach (probably not the best comparative example to Internet Censorship, but run with me for a moment) and commissioned an Environmental Report to see what impact it would have, received the report, didn’t release the commissioned report but instead wrote a report about the report saying it was all good, what would happen?

Would that be accepted and allowed to continue by the public? Hell No! They would insist on seeing the actual reports findings, not the padded version from the Government saying “All good mate”.

Would they even be allowed to conduct the report, get the results and then use the results to say what is an acceptable level of pollution/risk allowing them to set the goal posts where ever they want? Hell No again! That would have to be clearly stated from the get go.

So why can they get away with such an underhanded and dishonest tricks with the filtering “trial”?

Why was there no mention of the Filtering Policy in the ALP national conference agenda yet it appeared in the ALP National Platform and Constitution 2009?

Why are they hiding so much from the public, yes still claiming to be transparent and open?

Conroy, I hope you’re days of being an incompetent or willingly ignorant Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy are very, very limited.

]]> By: NathanaelB http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/#comment-13185 NathanaelB Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:19:11 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1692#comment-13185 We need to form a Citizen Communication Interception force :-) We need to form a Citizen Communication Interception force :-)

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/#comment-13184 Stilgherrian Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:48:55 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1692#comment-13184 <strong>@NathanaelB:</strong> <a href="http://openaustralia.org">OpenAustralia</a> is indeed a wonderful thing, but it also "only" makes available in a far more useful and flexible form information which is already in the public domain. The <em>real</em> challenge is making available all this taxpayer-funded research which <em>informs</em> government. Why, for example, do we have to wait for the Minister to read and make a statement about a report before we, the citizens, see it? As the old saying goes, "If you've got nothing to hide..." @NathanaelB: OpenAustralia is indeed a wonderful thing, but it also “only” makes available in a far more useful and flexible form information which is already in the public domain. The real challenge is making available all this taxpayer-funded research which informs government.

Why, for example, do we have to wait for the Minister to read and make a statement about a report before we, the citizens, see it? As the old saying goes, “If you’ve got nothing to hide…”

]]> By: NathanaelB http://stilgherrian.com/politics/conroy-has-the-internet-filtering-report-do-we/#comment-13175 NathanaelB Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:38:54 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=1692#comment-13175 If it's a new era of transparency it's because we, the citizens, make it so... through community-developed initiatives like OpenAustralia. Not because of anything the Government is doing. If it’s a new era of transparency it’s because we, the citizens, make it so… through community-developed initiatives like OpenAustralia. Not because of anything the Government is doing.

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