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Business
12:20PM Nick Broughall | Most of these responses to Conroy’s bitch-slapping of Telstra came through yesterday, but they’re still worth a read. Personally, I’m disappointed by the lack of fireworks from Telstra themselves – I can’t help but think that if Sol was around, we’d have lawyers duelling pistols at dawn… More »
The Industry’s Response To Conroy’s Telstra Ultimatum
12:20PM Nick Broughall | Most of these responses to Conroy’s bitch-slapping of Telstra came through yesterday, but they’re still worth a read. Personally, I’m disappointed by the lack of fireworks from Telstra themselves – I can’t help but think that if Sol was around, we’d have lawyers duelling pistols at dawn… More » 
Business
11:46AM Nick Broughall | Somebody get me some popcorn: This could get very messy. Today Senator Conroy announced that the Rudd government has made some pretty major changes to telecommunications laws that will require Telstra to structurally separate its wholesale and retail businesses. And if they don’t do it voluntarily, the government’s going to bring the pain… More »
Government To Force Telstra To Structurally Separate Wholesale And Retail
11:46AM Nick Broughall | Somebody get me some popcorn: This could get very messy. Today Senator Conroy announced that the Rudd government has made some pretty major changes to telecommunications laws that will require Telstra to structurally separate its wholesale and retail businesses. And if they don’t do it voluntarily, the government’s going to bring the pain… More »
Online
1:12PM Nick Broughall | A government commissioned study says that 84% of boys aged 16-17 have seen internet porn, but most claim it’s accidental. What horseshit. Here’s a much more accurate view of the situation: 100% of teenage boys are horny little bastards who’ll lie about their porn viewing habits to government researchers because they don’t want to seem like horny little bastards. More »
Teenagers Apparently View Online Porn By Accident – Yeah, Right…
1:12PM Nick Broughall | A government commissioned study says that 84% of boys aged 16-17 have seen internet porn, but most claim it’s accidental. What horseshit. Here’s a much more accurate view of the situation: 100% of teenage boys are horny little bastards who’ll lie about their porn viewing habits to government researchers because they don’t want to seem like horny little bastards. More »
Online
9:30AM Nick Broughall | Here’s another reason to want to kick Senator Conroy in his manjunk – According to a report by Asher Moses in the SMH, he’s apparently decided to turn his already stupid compulsory web filter against gamers by blocking websites hosting or selling games that are rated above the maximum MA15+ for games in Australia. More »
Now The Government Wants To Censor Mature Games…
9:30AM Nick Broughall | Here’s another reason to want to kick Senator Conroy in his manjunk – According to a report by Asher Moses in the SMH, he’s apparently decided to turn his already stupid compulsory web filter against gamers by blocking websites hosting or selling games that are rated above the maximum MA15+ for games in Australia. More »
Random Stuff
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Taken at Sony’s new BD disc factory yesterday. It’s so good, it almost doesn’t need a caption. But go nuts anyway… More »
Caption Contest: Quick! Press The Red Button!
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Taken at Sony’s new BD disc factory yesterday. It’s so good, it almost doesn’t need a caption. But go nuts anyway… More »
Networks
11:30AM Nick Broughall | We laughed when the original six ISPs were announced to trial the Government’s ISP-level internet filtering scheme – aside from iPrimus, we’d never heard of any of them. Well, yesterday the Government added a seventh ISP to the trial, and this time it’s a biggie. Optus will be taking part in the trial from May 22. More »
Optus Now Taking Part In The Government’s Internet Filter Trial
11:30AM Nick Broughall | We laughed when the original six ISPs were announced to trial the Government’s ISP-level internet filtering scheme – aside from iPrimus, we’d never heard of any of them. Well, yesterday the Government added a seventh ISP to the trial, and this time it’s a biggie. Optus will be taking part in the trial from May 22. More »
Online
8:00AM Nick Broughall | Last night, Senator Stephen Conroy appeared on the ABC TV program Q&A, and spent almost half the program defending his internet filter plans. More than 2000 people sent questions on the issue, and yet the Senator somehow managed to avoid most of them by repeating the same old boring arguments. And because we have the ability to analyse the arguments, we’re going to refute each one of them, one by one. More »
Conroy Proves His Ability To Duck And Weave On Q&A
8:00AM Nick Broughall | Last night, Senator Stephen Conroy appeared on the ABC TV program Q&A, and spent almost half the program defending his internet filter plans. More than 2000 people sent questions on the issue, and yet the Senator somehow managed to avoid most of them by repeating the same old boring arguments. And because we have the ability to analyse the arguments, we’re going to refute each one of them, one by one. More »
Networks
11:30AM Nick Broughall | Well, this is interesting. Despite the fact that iiNet wasn’t selected to be one of the trial ISPs to give the government’s filter technology a thorough going over (perhaps the fact they were only doing it to prove it couldn’t work hurt their chances), it looks like they were still talking with the Government to get on board. Until yesterday, that is, when they decided to pull the plug. More »
iiNet Pulls Out Of The Government’s Filter Trial Scheme
11:30AM Nick Broughall | Well, this is interesting. Despite the fact that iiNet wasn’t selected to be one of the trial ISPs to give the government’s filter technology a thorough going over (perhaps the fact they were only doing it to prove it couldn’t work hurt their chances), it looks like they were still talking with the Government to get on board. Until yesterday, that is, when they decided to pull the plug. More »
Online
9:20AM Nick Broughall | No idea from which back corner of the web this internet meme has come from, but it worked for Watchmen, so it will almost definitely work for the proposed ISP internet filtering scheme that the Rudd government keeps pushing. More »
Protesting The Internet Filter Makes Hitler Angry
9:20AM Nick Broughall | No idea from which back corner of the web this internet meme has come from, but it worked for Watchmen, so it will almost definitely work for the proposed ISP internet filtering scheme that the Rudd government keeps pushing. More »
Entertainment
12:04PM Nick Broughall | Senator Conroy has a lot to answer for. Between trying to destroy filter the internet and keeping the whole NBN process clouded in secrecy (so nobody can criticise his handling of it, we suppose), there are a lot of arguments and issues that the Minister needs to answer for. And considering he’s going to be a guest on the ABC’s Q&A program next Thursday, this could be our chance to ask him the tough questions. More »
Call To Arms: Stephen Conroy On ABC’s Q&A Next Week
12:04PM Nick Broughall | Senator Conroy has a lot to answer for. Between trying to destroy filter the internet and keeping the whole NBN process clouded in secrecy (so nobody can criticise his handling of it, we suppose), there are a lot of arguments and issues that the Minister needs to answer for. And considering he’s going to be a guest on the ABC’s Q&A program next Thursday, this could be our chance to ask him the tough questions. More » 