No clean feed
Catallaxy has picked up on the Internet filtering issue and has offered a useful link for those keen to get mobilised on this issue.
From the No Clean Feed website:-
Call the Minister
There’s nothing like a personal phone call to get the message across. Call the minister’s office on (03) 9650 1188 and let them know your objections.
Write to the Minister
A personalised letter to the Minister sends a powerful message: We don’t like the policy, and we care. Letters can be sent to the Ministerial office:
Senator Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002
The No Clean Feed website includes other options also such as petitions and the ministers email address. Check it out and start making some noise.
UPDATE: if you’re a facebook user then you can join the facebook cause to spread the word.
The Counter-productivity of Subsidies.
In one of our previous incarnations as the Progress Party, one of our office bearers circulated a document referring to it as ‘compulsory reading.’ While most of us understood what he meant, most of us felt obliged to send him letters pointing out the contradiction. Yep it was letters back in those days, “snail mail,” you youngsters don’t know how good you’ve got it.
If I hadn’t remembered this story, I would make this video compulsory viewing. This is one of the best demonstrations of the disastrous results of state interventionism, and a lesson in the law of unintended consequences.
Censoring the Censorship
It seems the government has got a bit narky with some critics of it’s Internet censorship policy. From the following article;
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;879301684;pp;1;fp;4194304;fpid;1
This morning, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that a policy advisor at Senator Conroy’s office had sent an e-mail to the Internet Industry Association (IIA) expressing concern that Internode’s Mark Newton, as an IIA member, was behaving “irresponsibly” with regard to criticisms he made of Conroy’s controversial content filtering scheme on the popular Whirlpool broadband forum.
SMH reported that the email was accompanied by a phone call demanding the message be passed on to senior Internode management.
Hopefully the Liberal party will find some liberal instincts and oppose this legislation. Hopefully they will do it loudly.
Minchin responded at the time that the opposition was “certainly not” committed to supporting the scheme in parliament.
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