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Once people had a fear there was ‘a red under every bed‘. A 1950′s ocmmunist fear that led to the Anti Communist trials of Joe McCarthy in Hollywood, those despicable equivalents of the Salem witch trials.
Now, it seems we have been right all along, but didn’t know it. Th fear the faceless communist masses would swallow us up and we would lose our precious freedoms were dismissed as nonsense. However, Stephen Conroy has done all but declare his allegience to Chairman Mao.
I have previously mocked our great Senator *coughing fit at use of word great* here. He seems determined to move from mere laughing stock to full threat to democracy. Man obviously is ambitious….
First a few articles from ZDNET AU
Inside Australia’s data retention proposal “Telecommunications industry sources have called the claims by Attorney-General media relations that web browsing history would not be recorded in a controversial data retention proposal “a bit cute” and a question of terminology and semantics.”
Yet it gets better : Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history “Companies who provide customers with a connection to the internet may soon have to retain subscriber’s private web browsing history for law enforcement to examine when requested, a move which has been widely criticised by industry insiders.“
Now TIME has noticed the great debat…debacle.
First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of… Australia?. “The concept of government-backed web censorship is usually associated with nations where human rights and freedom of speech are routinely curtailed. But if Canberra’s plans for a mandatory Internet filter go ahead, Australia may soon become the first Western democracy to join the ranks of Iran, China and a handful of other nations where access to the Internet is restricted by the state.”
Far be it for me to accuse Senator Stephen Conroy of being a dangerous communist lunatic who hates freedom and is probably a secret bed wetter with strange sexual fetishes involving dairy products. That isn’t my style. However, noone has satisfactorily explained either the amount of cheese delivered to his office, or his bizarre behaviour on this subject.
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