July 8, 2010
Historical view - lie counter on the original announcement

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.”
Reality: They aren’t going to be able to.

Misleading: “The internet hasn’t ground to a halt in the UK, it hasn’t ground to a halt in Scandinavian countries and it’s not grinding the internet to a halt in Europe.”
Reality: That is because none of these places have mandatory filters.

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