Spoof Conroy website protests at internet filter plan
Found on Sydney Morning Herald on Sunday, 20 December 2009
A net prankster has taken advantage of Conroy's failure to reserve his own domain name by registering stephenconroy.com.au and turning it into an anti-censorship protest site.
Conroy announced this week that he would be pressing ahead with plans to force ISPs to block a secret blacklist of "refused classification" (RC) websites for all Australian internet users.
How come that politicians refuse to learn from the past? Censoring just won't work and is nothing more than a pitiful attempt to hide what you don't want to deal with. The "you can't see it so it's gone" solution is the dumbest thing one can come up with.