What would be the most important skill required for a Communications Minister? The ability to communicate should be right up near the top. Unfortunately, Senator Conroy displays his inability to communicate and his lack of knowledge about the Internet. He also shows that he doesn’t understand any of the real threats to Internet users, except [...]

Senator Conroy is at it again, trying to make his Internet Filter sound good. He has promised to review the filter when the list gets bloated or to 10,000 URLs. There are over 205,000,000 web sites (April 2010) which almost certainly have more than one page and contain images, videos, music, podcasts, Flash animations and [...]

As part of the story on Senator Conroy’s Internet Filter the SMH web site is conducting a poll. Currently (Tue Mar 30 22:15:03 EST 2010) there are over 32,000 respondents with 96% opposing this filter. Please register your vote against this deeply flawed proposal – http://www.smh.com.au/polls/technology/technology-news/internet-censorship/20100330-r9ft.html

Below is a form that I have sent to Bob Debus, my local member:
Thank you for the form letter I received after my earlier complaint about the Internet Filter. The form replies showed a lack of understanding of Internet technologies.
After Senator Conroy’s lies, blatant misinformation and total lack of comprehension of the Internet works [...]

Focus – a research company committed to making world-class business expertise universally available – has released a report detailing 50 places that you wouldn’t expect to run Linux – http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/. It includes Google, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, Toyota Motor Sales USA, US Department of Defence, US Navy Nuclear Submarine Fleet, Spanish Government, Industrial and [...]

The Australian Government released the public submissions to the Internet filter proposed by Senator Conroy. Major tech companies like Optus, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Telstra and many “concerned citizens” made submissions. Many were concerned about the transparency of the list and the continual broadening of blocked categories by Senator Conroy. The Australian Christian Lobby, one of [...]

Senator Conroy is upset that he has been declared an enemy of the Internet – Conroy hits out at internet enemies report.
He again spews the “Material like child pornography, pro-rape websites, pro-bestiality websites and material of that nature” line implying that if you’re anti-censorship you are in favour of this content. Nothing could be further [...]

Reporters Sans Frontièrs (Reporters Without Borders for Press Freedom) have added Australia to the “Under Surveillance List” because of Senator Conroy’s determination to censor the Internet. Even though members of his own Labor Party (how can you trust a political party who misspell their name), most notably Senator Kate Lundy whose motto shows her understanding [...]

The web site for Senator Conroy, the Australian Minister for Censorship, has infringed on copyright and failed to remove the code when requested by the author. As reported by ITWire the DBCDE web site uses a Javascript to generate a “tag cloud. The Javascript was written by Aleks Bochniak who requested on 1 March 2010 [...]

In late November last year Optus rang up saying that my contract was just about up and asked if I was going to renew my contract. The phone caller offered a new Nokia 6710 Navigator as part of the 2-year contract. After telling them that there was still 3 months to they offered to waive [...]