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TWITS: Labor Senator’s partner says no to Conroy’s “clean feed”
The partner of WA Labor Senator Louise Pratt, Aram Hosie, has slammed Labor Senator Steve Conroy’s plan to ban websites containing child sex abuse content, bestiality, sexual violence including rape, and the detailed instruction of crime or drug use.
Hosie sent a personal message to the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this morning via Twitter arguing that the censorship plan will have an adverse effect on Australian adoption of broadband:
Dear @KevinRuddPM and Co: censorship and #bbfutures in the same conversation just doesn’t make sense. #nocleanfeed. Simple as that.
Hosie is a prominent ALP Left member in Western Australia, formerly active in Young Labor. Hosie identifies now as a man but wasn’t always. Confusingly enough for all those who take an unnatural interest in these things, Hosie was once the partner of lesbian Left-wing faction Senator Louise Pratt before becoming a man making the couple, one would suppose, somewhat less lesbian. If that’s not correct, politically or otherwise, we apologise in advance. Each to their own is the VEXNEWS way.
The Senator’s lover is no stranger to controversy, once accused of improperly interfering in a Young Labor ballot on behalf of the Left group in Western Australia.
Whether such things will now be capable of explanation after the Conroy reforms are passed is something we’ll have to wait to find out.
Certainly the politics of opposing a ban on videos of the abuse of kids and other dodgy material is compelling. That’s why the government is doing it. The move will probably have bi-partisan political support with the Liberals not game to oppose it in principle and probably not keen to block the legislation either, whatever its form. Family First and the Nationals will almost certainly support it too.
Critics worry that the move won’t be effective and could have all manner of dastardly effects on the ability of Australians to access the internet.
It is one of many issues where a clear split exists between the libertarian instincts of those within the latte curtain of our great cities and with the views of Middle Australia in the form of mums and dads in marginal seats. For now, the government is minded to side with the outer suburbs against the elites on most issues. Although its biggest political threat is the CPRS, the government’s emissions trading system, which has strong political support in the inner-city and much less in regional Australia and the suburbs.
We can only hope Conroy’s ban plan is very carefully executed once it passes the Australian Parliament all but unanimously. The initial draft of banned content leaked earlier in the year suggests the implementation of the content ban could be messy and controversial.
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Senator Stephen Conroy is to be commended. A great initiative by a great Minister. Don’t let the Socialist Leftistas upset you Steve.
Andrew,
Maybe I am mistaken here, but I thought kiddy porn etc was ALREADY ILLEGAL in this country.
What Conroy is proposing is to make it the responsibility of ISPs to block sites that have been added to a SECRET BLACKLIST that will be setup and maintained by various government appointed commissars.
Of course they talk about making sure that children and adults don’t accidentally navigate to such sites which are ALREADY ILLEGAL, but soon enough, it will also be about blocking access to sites that are not politically acceptable/correct.
Please change your stance. Patriots and freedom fighters should be against any legislation that may start to curtail our freedom of speech.
This isn’t an issue of socialista lefties vs mum’s and dad’s in outer suburbs. It’s young vs old, new media freedom vs old mediia censorship, a generational issue that is an opportunity for the Liberal Party to increase its appeal to the young voters by taking a principled stand.
The young liberals voted almost unanimously to condemn the bill at the Federal Conference last year. I don’t forsee anything changing after this announcement.
Not many outside the sicko fringe take issue with the banning of sicko fringe sites such as kiddie pron and instruction in how to make nitro or ice.
What we do take issue with is all the legitimate sites blocked at the whim of some idiot public servant in Canberra, between latte, lunch and emails and whatever else it is that PS do with their work time. The working copy that was leaked included abortion and euphenasia material, gambling websites, even a dental surgery.
Who knows what might get the banhammer due to some enourmously fat self involved leftard asshole getting high and mighty, with the right friends, and making a formal complaint? This should be sounding a little familiar to you by now Andy…
that lesbian still looks like a lesbian
and by lesbian I mean both of those in the picture above
We all know that Stephen Conroy doesn’t usually wash his hands after p#ssing – but here’s betting he’ll get all Pontius Pilate in the washroom after p#ssing all over the freedom of Australian internet useers.
Homosexuals are an abomination. The LORD Almighty told us so in the Holy Bible. Those practising this abhorrent act shall surely be condemned to Hell for all eternity.
“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them” Leviticus 20:13
I’m not a homosexual. I just do a bit of extra cleaning up in the Wahroonga conveniences.
This is boring, what is happening at NUS?
how long till http://www.vexnews.com is on conroy’s list?
I guess I’m going to Hell then.
CL.
Yes CL, you are.
“let freedom ring” ?
I declare the following to be self-evident:
1. Society has a right to set behavioural boundaries.
2. We as a society give people the benefit of the doubt that they act within those boundaries.
3. If we have evidence that someone is acting outside those boudaries, we investigate and put it before the court. If the evidence holds up to scrutiny, we remove that someone from the society.
It ends there. No “just in case” monitoring of the entire population, no unaccountable committees making it up as they go along. No exception to the rule that says “if it’s kiddie porn the rules don’t apply”.
Got it?
yeah that’s right, I said “boudaries”!
AC you still might not make it, if your ’secrets’ are exposed.
I’ve got all of Wahroonga behind me. Which is why my bum has had more through traffic than the harbour tunnel.
if you are a lesbian who becomes a man does that mean you are heterosexual? What about your gay lover – are they still gay if they stay with you when you become a man? So many questions and so few answers.
What if you are a gay man but marry a woman and have children, what is that called?
What if you are a gay Liberal SA MP pretending to be straight – does that make you a hypocrite ?
9.33, for an Adelaide man, isn’t that just normal?
NO FILTER!
This site should be filtered, by Conroy or one of his cronies.
Byron 4.45 at the Wahroonga Park male public latrine, remember to wear those trackie dacks for ease.
The filter will only drive the peds and freaks further under ground.
If it in anyway slows down or effects our internet use it should be sidelined.
It is no coincidence that this announcement was made during the Climate Farce happening in Copenhagen.
First sex. Then climate.
Soon it will become illegal to draw attention to the massive data fraud that has under-pinned Lying Climate Alarmism. Like this:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/
Of course Rudd and Co have to censor the internet. They’re learning from their Chinese paramours.
I agree with the goal of stamping out child porn. I just don’t think a “cleanfeed” the way to to achieve it. It won’t stop other technologies like encrypted peer to peer networks. The money wasted on filters would be better served to if it was diverted into resources for organisations the federal police to catch these scumbags.
This is outright censorship, and a dangerous blight on democracy. It will have zero impact on abuse against children, and presenting it as a solution to anything is nonsensical spin.
This is about setting up a system whereby the exchange of information is controlled. It smells, and no doubt the stench will gather more pungency.
To maniplulate our base revulsion of child abuse and other depravities, or to manipulate a decent parent’s primal instinct to protect their children, to control is repulsive.
This Senator is a dangerous little man. Such an odious tool!
I must remember to salute silly stephen with an outstreched arm next time I see him.
Such sites are already illegal, what he is doing is attempting to censor the internet. STOP LYING!
There was a German Propaganda Minister of whom you remind me.
Remember a while ago when Andy was ridiculing Iran for having a heavy handed filter which blocked parts of his site?
Yeah.
Don’t the freedom loving Chinese have similar filters?
Fail Vex, Fail. Perfectly reasonable to have concerns about Conroys plans, given lack of transparency and past issues with the ‘black lists’.
Boring and vindictive…. *yawn*
This isn’t a latte-curtain issue, it’s techs versus non-techs.
My non-techy liberal arts inner-city female buds disapprove of the censorship implications, but are buying Conroy’s “something has to be done about pron” line ‘cos it ties in to feminazi views on that stuff.
Meanhile my farm-dwelling, Nationals-voting buddy, who is a network security geek, sees the filter on a par with gun control, i.e. a pointless exercise of government control that will do nothing except give latte-curtain dwellers a case of the warm fuzzies.
Andy, you’re way off base on this issue. Stop boosterising for Conroy.
Vex News itself is an example of the good that comes out of a decentralised, distributed network and your readers know this.
I dont mind, so long as there’s no filtering laws on sending txts to teen females.
Just leave my daughter alone RDR you filthy Rock Spider.
bloody labor left
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