No Clean Feed

No more spin! please! Simply setting up a blog to spin the government out of trouble is not good enough. Senator Conroy and his spokespeople have consistently refused to return comment about this issue, other than to denigrate his policies detractors in a most shameful and undemocratic way. As Aldous Huxley said 'Facts don't cease to exist, simply because they are ignored'. Labor have been extremely ignorant of the facts of the argument in favor of their internet filtering, to such an extent, that I can no longer see them as offering any credible position on the subject. Both major parties are an embarrassment to this country in their ignorance of the simplest principles involving the internet. How can people with no IT experience be promoted as ministers for that portfolio? How about hiring some IT professionals for advice rather than pandering to the views of 'minor' parties? FYI they are called 'minor parties' for a reason. If the government were concerned about protecting children, why would they not get or listen to expert advice on the issue of internet filtering? Its evident to me that protecting children is not the prime motivation behind 'Clean Feed'. The internet filtering the government wants to implement is an attempt to subvert the internet [and the democratic process], to garner favor with minor parties, to gain greater control of parliament. Pure and simple. This blog is too little, too late, as far as I am concerned. The government has already made its position perfectly clear and I will base my opinions on its conduct thus far.