October 2010
2 posts
“The federal government has confirmed that circumventing the proposed internet...”
– Commsday, October 5th, 2010.
Shit just got real, people. All the lies, god, so many lies. How .. how can a person lie this much and keep their job? How is this possible?
Get scared, get active.
July 2010
5 posts
Politicians complain about parliament web filter →
Internet filter running on Parliament net connection blocks things it wasn’t meant to, including several public transport timetable sites, iPad reviews, and a News Ltd talkback site.
Top quotes from the article:
“Getting individual sites unblocked is a particularly laborious process. If you need to use a website, you often do not have time to do that,” Ryan said. “How do...
Evaluation of latest comments →
“We support the review that was announced today, we support and are willing to voluntarily commit to the blocking of the ACMA list of child pornography sites and we’ll continue to work constructively with the government as it undertakes this review,” Telstra public policy and communications director David Quilty told reporters in Melbourne.
What child pornography sites? ...
Why do we keep hearing about child porn when... →
We constantly, constantly hear Conroy using claims about opting in to child porn, accusing anyone who doesn’t want a filter of being pro-sex-with-kids.
BUT NOW:
‘Senator Conroy said the Government had never claimed the filter itself would stop child pornography.
“We’ve never tried to pretend that this was a silver bullet, we’ve never tried to suggest this was the...
Historical view - lie counter on the original... →
Logical fallacy: “If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.” Reality: The filter will not stop child pornography, a fact that Conroy admits freely, but still uses the correlation to quash disagreement. Lie: “Anyone wanting uncensored access to the internet will have to opt out of the service.”...
Affirming the consequent
Logical fallacy of the day - Affirming the consequent. Affirming the consequent is a formal fallacy of reasoning that works backwards from an outcome to establish a cause, despite the flow of cause and effect. It is a three-step argument. 1. If P, then Q. 2. Q. 3. Therefore, P. Senator Conroy uses this often, and it’s parodied well at http://conroylogic.com/, which takes a nonsensical...
June 2010
11 posts
Conroy's now defunct blog - 32+ pages of commenter... →
For a while there, Conroy was operating a blog, despite a fundamental lack of understanding about how blogs worked. Surprised and shocked that people could leave comments he didn’t like, moderation quickly started, and comments on nearly every article are filled with pages of unhappy people.
A blog whose comments were meant to provide accurate feedback on what the public thinks, was...
Conroy busted lying about Google's Wifi captures →
He said: “[If] you were doing a banking transaction, or transmitting personal information, they could have hoovered it up, sucked it up into their machine”.
They said: “The use of encryption in this manner is a proven technology and is part of banking industry standard practice throughout Australia. Even if portions of Internet banking communications were intercepted by Google’s ...
Conroy busted lying about support for the filter →
iiNet viciously responds to bold lies from Conroy that they support the Mandatory Internet Filter.
Web pages will be nominated for blacklisting by Australian internet users who come across illegal or ”unacceptable” websites.
He said: ”..this policy has been approved by 85 per cent of Australian internet service providers, who have said they would welcome the filter, ...
“My three-and-a-half year old daughter got my iPhone last night and has disabled...”
– Stephen Conroy, at the launch of National Cyber Security Awareness Week.
This man is responsible for our IT and communications policy, and can’t operate a phone targetted at people who like shiny things.
Conroy vs Newton on SBS Insight →
A great collection of clips from the now-infamous SBS Insight program.
Mark “Network Man” Newton from Internode makes some great rational arguments and generally just sits around destroying everything Conroy says.
Which, in all fairness, isn’t difficult.
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After putting together a number of pieces this week and realising that the Australian Government was actually trying to acquire entry-to-exit Big Brother style control of the Internet in this country, I was pretty shocked.
I wrote an article (that I’ll post shortly) about it, but realised that this alone wasn’t going to be enough; I was preaching to the converted. I need a...