@Richard: Heh! Maybe that’s just your worldview catching up with you. Still, one rational person has already rushed to ask not to be blocked. I did point out that’d be fruitless at this stage.

One disturbing aspect of Conroy’s framing is that anyone asking for a “clean feed” (i.e. a dirty feed, warts n’all) is being branded a child pornographer. Who will have access to that list? How long before it’s leaked? How long before a tabloid journalist uses the existence of an unfiltered Internet connection in someone’s home as “proof” that that person is dodgy?

Isn’t it amazing how fast those dumb back room deals for senate votes flows, comes back to bite them?

“However, comments like Conroy’s make it much harder to be confident that the government is doing anything other than populist pandering, putting up a feel-good measure which will have no practical impact but create the illusion of doing something effective.”

Conroy is yet to respond to any of the hundreds of questions being asked. I don’t know about the web, but I hope he has a good filter on his email client come Monday morning.