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  • Featured, News - Written by on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 15:19 - 3 Comments

    Conroy: EFA deliberately misled public on filter

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has again accused the leaders of Electronic Frontiers Australia of deliberately misleading the Australian public in its campaign against the Government’s internet filtering project.

    Journalistic freedom organisation Reporters without Borders on Friday released what it called its ‘Enemies of the Internet’ report, noting it was concerned that online censorship may enter the nation through the filtering project driven by Conroy.

    “While one could possibly excuse Reporters without Borders for their ignorance of the government’s policy, the same cannot be said of the local … Electronic Frontiers Australia, who through Colin Jacobs, chairman Nic Suzor and board member Geordie Guy, have run a campaign to deliberately mislead the Australian public,” Conroy said in the Senate today, after publicly lambasting the report yesterday.

    The EFA has published its own response to Conroy, saying it was still awaiting a solid defence of the filter policy that references evidence that the filter would help Australian children.

    “They have argued there is no child abuse material traded on the open internet,” said Conroy today. “Yet at the latest count, there were 355 child abuse URLs on the [Australian Communications and Media Authority] blacklist and therefore on the open internet.”

    Conroy also said the EFA had argued that filtering would slow the internet and result in overblocking, despite what he said was the Government’s independent report into the filtering plan.

    Last week Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey launched an attack on the filtering scheme, in one of the first cases of a senior Opposition figure coming out publicly against the controversial policy.

    “What we have in the government’s Internet filtering proposals is a scheme that is likely to be unworkable in practice. But more perniciously it is a scheme that will create the infrastructure for government censorship on a broader scale,” he said.

    But Conroy wasn’t impressed.

    “In 1999, the previous government — including Mr Hockey — supported the bill to prevent refused classification content from being hosted on Australian websites,” he told the Senate, appearing to imply that Hockey’s stance last week was hypocritical.

    The filter legislation was slated to be introduced into the Federal Parliament this week, but the Government appears to be struggling to get its legislation through the Senate, due to what both the Government and the Greens have claimed is obstructionism by the Opposition.

    Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has claimed the filter legislation will have to wait until after the next Federal election.

    Image credit: Office of Stephen Conroy

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    1. Posted 16/03/2010 at 4:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Good work to EFA for getting under Conroy’s skin in such a way as to cause him to respond in this manner. It’s disappointing that Conroy still thinks that his “filter” is worthwhile. Although it is heartening to see organisations like Reports without Borders include Australia in its ‘Enemies of the Internet’ report. It seemed to me that Australia was getting away with such a bad policy without real international attention or condemnation.

    2. lorro
      Posted 20/09/2010 at 7:13 pm | Permalink | Reply

      Careful, Conroy may censor EFA’s website. No hiding the truth once it is out Conroy.

    3. [...] the Senate this afternoon Conroy again accused the leaders of Electronic Frontiers Australia of deliberately misleading the Australian public in its Open Internet campaign against the Government’s internet [...]

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