[LINK] Stop bagging Conroy, dammit!

[tomk]

On 3/12/2012 4:05 p.m., rene wrote:
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> For that not to happen, it appears that, among other things, a 
> Minister with very strong views about 'open internet' etc and very 
> great ability to persuade party colleagues would be necessary. All 
> indications are that such a person would not be Conroy, and I'm 
> frankly doubtful that the Labor Party even has such a perosn.

Umm, they do Irene.
And her name is Kate....
After watching her battle for consumers on Internet issues since 1997, I 
consider it a real shame that she didn't get a turn at bat.
The current Minister appears to be hoisting his anti-internet-blocking 
petard in collusion with those nice "do no evil chaps".
You know, the ones that block all external anonymous proxies from 
accessing their search engine.
The ones that demand your mobile number because they had to lock down 
your email account to protect your reputation from being a spammer.
The ones that our parents would have called "Nemzeti 
biztonság/Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti", (depending on your origins).
On the other hand, the Minister was the co-architect of the NBN. For 
that we should thank him. For building a network that carries every byte 
from every person in Australia through a little [figuratively speaking] 
switch in Canberra at ultra fast speeds.
(Probably so that they can get better stats on Internet use in Australia.)
It's a good thing we don't have anyone in Australia "doing no evil".