Agmates

Minister Conroy, your claim that the government controlled filtering (read censorship) of the internet is not about attacking Australians rite to free speech is misleading at best and deceptive at worst. Currently your government and previous governments spend many millions of dollars on Media advisers, press secretaries and PR people to try and control what appears in the traditional media. So now you want Australians to hand you and your government to exclusive legal right to control what Australians see on the internet. All you offer us as comfort that you, your governments and governments to come will not block material that is politically critical of the government of the day is 'trust us'. Sorry we don't, we are not that naive.