Australian Filtering Boss: Turning Off Blog And Comments
from the but-listening...-we-swear... dept
With the story earlier this week about Australia's Broadband Minister, Stephen Conroy, considering adding BitTorrent filtering to the country's ISP filtering/censorship program, it was notable that Conroy said he was paying close attention to the commentary about the program online -- including various blogs and social network systems like Twitter. That was actually a small glimmer of hope mixed in with the ridiculous policy -- but it appears that Conroy has decided he'd really rather not listen to the conversation on his own blog. While that post about BitTorrent filtering got a lot of attention, it also got a ton of comments, and now Conroy and his team are turning off their blog and closing down the comments. Way to communicate with the people...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: australia, bittorrent, blogs, censorship, comments, filters, stephen conroy
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Must be hard to breathe
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Conroy is an idiot
Everyone is going to hate that stupid Stephen Conroy. Guess what the CON stands for???
Idiot governments usually find themselves out of office at the earliest opportunity.
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Madness
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Err
Wow.
I suppose from an idiot pollutician I should've known it would have ended up not being a joke.
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Sigh
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Blocking an Ozy business near you?
TraceRouts from Australia indicated that our ISP was getting its connections via Telstra... but that the final leg to the hosting company was being firewalled. I've not been able to get an answer from anyone about this weirdness, but its a lot like the troubles Thai people have with their government's net monitoring scheme: overload leading to incorrectly rejected traffic and email & business griding to a hault. Of course, it could also be fun and games with DNS hackers... thats the problem with this sort of non-transparent scheme. There is no way to know what is happening, so you get all paranoid... but am I paranoid enough?
Anyway - I voted for labor: I will not do it again unless Rudd kills this plan off.
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