blog Well, well well. Turns out the old dog knows some new tricks. Not only did former Australian Prime Minister John Howard participate in a live blog with The Australian newspaper today, he took the time out to slam Labor’s National Broadband Network project and comment on what he thinks about Twitter.
Howard on the NBN:
“I think the NBN is a colossal waste of money. Senator Conroy said at the weekend that not everybody needed 100 MB – that has undermined the whole rationale for the project.”
And, asked whether new forms of media such as Twitter and 24 hour TV channels were a positive or a negative, Howard replied:
“We should never decry fresh methods of communication. Politicians must adapt not restrict. Politicians should resist communication forms which trivialise but they shouldn’t decry them.”
Now, can someone please bring out Paul Keating to issue a reply? Please? Oh well. At least we have Fake Paul Keating.
Image credits: US Department of Defense, Delimiter screenshot of Twitter.com
If you don’t know the difference between a megabit and a megabyte then you obviously don’t have the knowledge to participate in the debate.
That @fakepaulkeating account is an embarrassment. Please don’t promote junk like that!
Why do people keep thinking the NBN is only about providing 100Mbit and because not everyone wants it the project is ruined? Not everyone has a acceptable connection now, NBNco will help them, and those who want faster speeds will have the option available and rightfully so pay a larger cost to help network costs for using it.
Furthermore 100Mbit is no harder to provide than 1Mbit over FTTH, or hell, even 100Gbit.
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