{"id":2299,"date":"2011-02-03T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2011-02-03T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:24:41","slug":"conroy-contradicts-himself-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2011\/02\/conroy-contradicts-himself-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Conroy Contradicts Himself &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About this time last year, Stephen Conroy made <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2010\/02\/stephen-conroy-you-cant-regulate-the-internet\/\">a potentially embarrassing gaffe<\/a> on ABC Radio National&#8217;s Breakfast with Fran Kelly program, in which he said &#8220;you can&#8217;t regulate the internet&#8221; &#8211; before quickly stepping back and qualifying the statement as relating only to IPTV.<\/p>\n<p>While his comment was not strictly in the context of his stupid and much-hated policy of mandatory internet censorship, the minor stink I created with the snippet below from the interview did <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/News\/167651,conroy-can-still-regulate-the-internet.aspx\">spark a response from the minister&#8217;s department<\/a>, courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/\">iTNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGGS0s8DYZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Well, seems he&#8217;s done it again today, with the following quote made at the launch of a new HP data centre construction in Sydney, and presented in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/delimiter.com.au\/2011\/02\/03\/no-internet-kill-switch-for-australia-says-conroy\/\">this Delimiter article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;Australia\u2019s a vibrant democracy, where the government doesn\u2019t control the internet&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in February 2010 it is &#8220;you can&#8217;t regulate the internet&#8221;, and in February 2011 it is &#8220;the government doesn&#8217;t control the internet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If the mandatory internet filter is not the government trying to &#8220;regulate&#8221; or &#8220;control&#8221; the internet, what exactly is it Mr Conroy?<\/p>\n<p>Ministerial facepalm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this time last year, Stephen Conroy made a potentially embarrassing gaffe on ABC Radio National&#8217;s Breakfast with Fran Kelly program, in which he said &#8220;you can&#8217;t regulate the internet&#8221; &#8211; before quickly stepping back and qualifying the statement as relating only to IPTV. While his comment was not strictly in the context of his [&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":[100,384,404],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}