[LINK] Minister warned on porn filters

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:33 AM 2/01/2008, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>What didn't amuse me was that the thrust of the argument during the
>hearing went like this: if you didn't use filtering, or advocate
>filtering, then you're a pornographer, or worse.
>
>Not much has changed.

ah, yes. Those were the days. I was interviewed for the one and only 
time on ABC radio Jon Faine's program. Didn't know a thing about his 
show then. He played devils advocate as he does and I was appalled. I 
thought I was only doing a public service announcement about a forum 
at the State Library about the censorship act and it ended up being a 
debate with Jon about why net filtering was bad. I ran the 'teachable 
moment' line, I remember, but the rest was pretty much a blur.

Conroy is doing the same straw man bad logic thing. Back in the 
Howard days [that still feels good], it was Senator Dick we had to 
contend with. Now I guess it's Senator Con?

It will be interesting if the meme of 'technology neutral' travels 
into the Rudd govt, too.

Jan


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