Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
After all, this blog has called Senator Stephen Conroy the “Minister for Censorship”.
It has noted that Whirlpoolers have derided Senator Conroy as “Senator Conjob”.
It has remarked upon how we might as well rename Australia the “Soviet Socialist Republic of the South”, and how the “Great Firewall of Australia” and the “Great Barrier Firewall Reef” is set to be imposed on Australians.
This blog has also utterly dismissed any notion that the Rudd Labor Government isn’t taking us down the path of China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, or that just because people are against filtering, it must mean that opponents are all supporters of child pornography.
Australians have watched in horror as the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been delayed time and again, with the 5-year timeframe for construction guaranteeing that whatever is built will be out of date by the time it is finished, given how fast technology moves.
There isn’t even any guarantee the current Government will still be in power by the time the NBN is complete.
Australians have also reacted in horror that the lucky, clever country could soon become the censored country. Australia ceased being a land of convicts long ago, enforcing filtration makes suspects out of every single Australian.
Why is Internet filtration the priority in a country still beset by the “tyranny of distance”, by high broadband prices, slow fraudband and a digital economy that still sees a brain drain of our best and brightest e-workers to Silicon Valley and other parts of the world?
Instead of opening Australia up to the world, we’re shutting it down. Censoring it off. Introducing uncertainty, slower speeds, false positives and bad political karma.
With apologies to Ronald Reagan... “Senator Stephen Conroy, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for Australia, if you seek liberalisation: Come here to this Internet gateway you propose! Mr. Conroy, open this gateway! Mr. Conroy, tear down this wall of proposed Internet filtering and censorship!”
None of us ever just want to be another brick in the wall, but bright, young and free Australians that will ensure the labels of the lucky, clever country stick throughout the 21st century and beyond.
The imposition of an Internet filter on Australia will transform our digital economy into a digital eCONomy.
Senator Conroy, is that what you truly want? Is that how you want to be remembered? Will this be your legacy?
David Bass
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