On last nights ABC program Q&A communications minister Stephen Conroy faced the music over his governments plans to sensor & filter the Australian internet.
His appearance created the biggest reaction from the Australian public ever seen on the show.
Watch this 47 second video of the introduction by host Tony Jones to see what I mean.
Senator Conroy bumbles, fumbles and squirms his way through 30 minutes of grilling on the program.
Not only was the program compelling viewing it was a tremendous example of a free and open democratic society at work. Exactly what Senator Conroy is threatening with this legislation. Australia will be the only democracy in the world with compulsory filtering of the internet if Senator Conroy gets his way.
If you missed it you can watch watch it online here.
My thoughts are:
Senator Conroy is asking the Australian public to basically just trust him and his government not to abuse our right to free speech.
Actually I don’t -- trust him or believe him.
I must say that I was extremely disappointed at Andrew Bolts contribution to the discussion. He would make a good ’shock jock’ on commercial radio.
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