Hungry Beast Devours Conroy!

I'm really starting to enjoy the ABC TV show 'Hungry Beast'. It's kind of a 'Chaser's war' without the chaser boys.

On tonight's episode, they had a really good segment about the proposed clean feed internet filter, which plans to filter a range of 'prohibited' content at the ISP level. The main politician behind this ridiculous scheme is Senator Conroy, who was interviewed on the show.

Here's the full interview:



Here's tonight's full episode:




I recommend checking out this show. It's on at 9pm on ABC1 on Wednesdays.

Internet Censorship Rally

For those out of the loop, the Australian government wants to put a 'Clean Feed' filter on our internet access. This is being promoted under the tenuous banner of stopping child pornography, but will slow connections dramatically and block access to many other relatively unobjectionable sites.

Yesterday (13/12/08) there was an Anti Internet Censorship rally in Sydney with Sydney Atheist and resident of the internet 'Dave the Happy Singer ' as the MC, which you can read more about here.



Most people seem to be scared that it will end up like this, but knowing the resourcefulness of the basement dwelling internet population, it's more likely to turn out like this.


Read more about it
New hurdle for net censorship- SMH
On the ISP filtering and censorship front Sean the Blogonaut
Aussie prudes- Pharyngula
Stilgherrian interview- Here's Why
Australia’s war on the internet- It's Alive
Internet filtering opposition gathering speed- Evolving Thoughts
Clean feed or Church feed?- Ian Woolf
Internet censorship - the Great Wall of Australia- Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
Australia's compulsory internet filtering 'costly, ineffective'- News.com.au