“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?  Conroy’s said on multiple occasions that child porn does NOT happen on the web and that’s not what the filter is about, so why’s it so important to block these sites that don’t exist?

“We’ll have to wait and see what the review comes out with, but we’ve said all the way through this is about blocking the worst of the worst,” he said.

Not true - this has changed constantly from Refused Classification, to illegal, to Child Porn, to “unwanted” material.  It has never been about any one thing.  We keep getting lied to about what this is actually supposed to stop.

RC content includes child abuse material, bestiality, rape and other extreme violence and terrorist acts.

Correct, however: the fact that paedophiles live in QLD does not mean all people who live in QLD are paedophiles.  Stop Affirming the Consequent.

Senator Conroy remained adamant that the internet filter proposal did not amount to censorship.

“I don’t think any Australian actually tries to describe blocking child pornography or bestiality or pro-rape websites as censorship,” Senator Conroy told reporters in Melbourne.

No, we don’t.  We do, however, not want to hand the keys to our freedom of information over to someone who can’t even decide on what he wants the filter to block, let alone have any measure of transparency in place.  This will stop material that is 100% legal, and anything else ‘unwanted’ that the government doesn’t think it’s in their best interests for you to access.  Especially not a government who has made it clear they are prepared to lie to and intentionally try to confuse the public as to its true goals, hiding it behind scare-tactics and throwing the words “child porn” around to try to squash criticism.