And once you’ve watched it, share it with your friends. Sign the GetUp petition. Write a letter to your local MP that eloquently states your disgust that the government is seemingly ignoring logic by pursuing an irrational and unworkable solution that will negatively effect every Australian. Because the only way we can make this go away now is to convince our local politicians that this is a huge mistake.
Realism
December 16, 2009 at 11:44 AM
This is just a land-grab for our freedoms from the religious lobby. http://bit.ly/6KyYBy
Report Permalinkjoe
December 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Disregarding Conroy for a second, only sign up to the petition if you are happy with Get Up spamming you each week asking for money for every issue under the sun.
Report PermalinkWok
December 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Just remove yourself from their list… this is the only cause they support that I care about.
Report Permalinktom
December 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM
I’d be very wary of GetUp – they are a fairly typical ‘protest for the sake of it/rent-a-crowd’ organisation and as such their opinions don’t carry much weight with anyone that matters.
Do write to your MP.
Do question why this money is being spent on a system that will protect zero children, endanger business and investment, and effectively rob the under-resources AFP of the resourceses they need to catch real cyber criminals.
Do publish and distribute instructions on how to get around the filter (a simple how-to would be nice).
Do heckle Conroy if you see him in public. He’s clearly an idiot and not for fit for public service. He’s an idiot for coming up with this scheme, and even more stupid for effectively betting his politial career on it.
Report PermalinkTim
December 17, 2009 at 12:55 AM
I’m doing both. I feel really strongly about this issue. Getting the ad on TV will get this issue to people who don’t spend as much time on the net as we do. That said — there is explicit mention in the Filtering FAQ that says they ‘may choose to only publish one of a series of duplicate, identical or near-identical ‘campaign-type’ responses’, so if you do write in and make a submission, put it in your own words.
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