[LINK] Filter: Tonight Conroy to debate EFA, Lumby, Newton

[David Boxall]

On 29/03/2010 1:13 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> Tonight at 6pm AEDT on ABC Radio National's "Australia Talks", 
> presenter Paul Barclay chairs a discussion between Senator Stephen 
> Conroy, vociferous filter critic network engineer Internode's Mark 
> Newton, Electronic Frontiers Australia vice president Colin Jacobs, 
> UNSW journalism professor Catharine Lumby, and Michael Grace, regional 
> chief for internet filtering company Netsweeper.
>
> http://delimiter.com.au/2010/03/29/filter-conroy-to-debate-efa-newton-tonight/
>
> ...
Following a link on that page: 
<http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/us-concerns-on-stephen-conroy-isp-filter/>. 

> The US State Department has told The Punch its officials have raised 
> concerns about the filter with Australian counterparts, as America 
> mounts a new diplomatic assault on internet censorship by governments 
> worldwide.

There's at least one positive to our government's depraved behaviour: 
it's exposed a need for US-style constitutional protections. In fact, 
given that we've evidently degraded to a level below the US, we need 
protection for freedom of expression and access to information that's 
even more robust than the US.

The debate is available at 
<http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/player_launch.pl?s=rn/australiatalks&d=rn/australiatalks/audio&r=ats-2010-03-29.ram&w=ats-2010-03-29.asx&t=Monday%2029%20March%202010&p=1>.

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