Senator Conroy’s surprise press conference Friday morning was clearly part of the “clearing of the decks” in the run-up to Julia Gillard’s first election.
On first impressions it looked like a minor victory: Despite telling us mere days ago that the Government’s much reviled ISP censorship policy would be heading to the Parliament as soon as November, Senator Conroy announced that it’d now be delayed by at least 12 months to give time for the State Attorneys General to review the Refused Classification (RC) category.
Despite the fact that there are a lot of people out there who openly oppose the mandatory internet filter proposed by the current Labor government, most are unable to argue their case from a purely technical standpoint. Fortunately they don’t need to, thanks to outspoken critic and engineer Mark Newton, who is now claiming that the ISP filter trials held last year may have been illegal.
