{"id":1326,"date":"2010-08-16T14:46:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:46:37","slug":"the-filtering-bluff-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/08\/the-filtering-bluff-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Filtering Bluff Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I postulated that Stephen Conroy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/08\/the-great-filtering-bluff\/\">has to be bluffing<\/a> with his pledge to &#8220;make changes at the classification board level&#8221; to get around what seems like an impassable road block in the Senate, thanks to the Coalition, Greens, and Nick Xenophon pledging to block any filter legislation.<\/p>\n<p>As I suggested in the first article, such action would be a massive blight on the democratic process in this country, but just now, another thought came to mind.<\/p>\n<p>If Senator Conroy believes that it is POSSIBLE to circumvent any possible outcome of a Senate vote on the legislation, and that his filtering proposal is such a good idea &#8211; in the light of all the opposition to the plan, why has he not circumvented the parliamentary process, and sought these changes at the &#8220;classification board level&#8221; already?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.  I&#8217;m now more convinced than ever that he&#8217;s bluffing, in line with my previous article.  He should just keep on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/08\/what-is-the-good-senator-scared-of\/\">censoring his own contact details<\/a>, and realise that he won&#8217;t succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I postulated that Stephen Conroy has to be bluffing with his pledge to &#8220;make changes at the classification board level&#8221; to get around what seems like an impassable road block in the Senate, thanks to the Coalition, Greens, and Nick Xenophon pledging to block any filter legislation. As I suggested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[105,384,404],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ausvotes","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}