Comments on: So Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall is dead… or is it? http://stilgherrian.com/politics/so-conroys-rabbit-proof-firewall-is-dead%e2%80%a6-or-is-it/ 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! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/so-conroys-rabbit-proof-firewall-is-dead%e2%80%a6-or-is-it/#comment-16449 Stilgherrian Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:00:11 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3625#comment-16449 <strong>@Sweet Sister Morphine:</strong> Thank you. Yes, while the gathering of many disparate opponents in opposition to Teh Filterz is perhaps the first example of hyperconnected politics in Australia, it has also shown how few people have anything but the most superficial understandin of how politics actually works. ISP-level filtering is still an official ALP policy. Senator Conroy's refusal to discuss it could well be designed in the hope that everyone will forget about it -- particularly if there's a few high-profile stories declaring the battle over. That said, there has been a subtle change in the wording of Conroy's announcements which gives him an "out" should the trials fail to deliver a ringing endorsement. More on that another time. @Sweet Sister Morphine: Thank you. Yes, while the gathering of many disparate opponents in opposition to Teh Filterz is perhaps the first example of hyperconnected politics in Australia, it has also shown how few people have anything but the most superficial understandin of how politics actually works.

ISP-level filtering is still an official ALP policy. Senator Conroy’s refusal to discuss it could well be designed in the hope that everyone will forget about it — particularly if there’s a few high-profile stories declaring the battle over.

That said, there has been a subtle change in the wording of Conroy’s announcements which gives him an “out” should the trials fail to deliver a ringing endorsement. More on that another time.

]]> By: Sweet Sister Morphine http://stilgherrian.com/politics/so-conroys-rabbit-proof-firewall-is-dead%e2%80%a6-or-is-it/#comment-16432 Sweet Sister Morphine Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:29:46 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=3625#comment-16432 Thanks for putting that out there. I had to explain to somebody the other day that the upcoming "March In March" <i>isn't</i> now totally redundant, mandatory filtering <i>isn't</i> old news/dead in the water, and this isn't the bit where we have some big ol' aesthetically pleasing parade, discretely* modelled on <i>Triumph des Willens</i> through the streets, set off some fireworks, declare a national holiday and rest on our laurels. Sorry, got a bit carried away there, but you get my point (hopefully). * Because nobody is allowed to openly admit to admiring Leni Riefenstahl's cinematography. Thanks for putting that out there. I had to explain to somebody the other day that the upcoming “March In March” isn’t now totally redundant, mandatory filtering isn’t old news/dead in the water, and this isn’t the bit where we have some big ol’ aesthetically pleasing parade, discretely* modelled on Triumph des Willens through the streets, set off some fireworks, declare a national holiday and rest on our laurels.

Sorry, got a bit carried away there, but you get my point (hopefully).

* Because nobody is allowed to openly admit to admiring Leni Riefenstahl’s cinematography.

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