{"id":440,"date":"2010-02-19T09:39:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:39:48","slug":"stephen-conroy-you-cant-regulate-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/02\/stephen-conroy-you-cant-regulate-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Conroy: You Can&#8217;t Regulate The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Stephen Conroy &#8211; the great Canberra Communications Cluebie &#8211; was interviewed on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning &#8211; (19 February 2010) &#8211; in regards to a recent substantial ($250M) financial gesture to Australia&#8217;s commercial television networks.<\/p>\n<p>The context of the following portion of the discussion was IPTV and how it might effect minimum Australian content regulations, so I have to admit that the context is not specifically in regards to internet filtering, however the interesting sound bite, spoken from his very mouth, is &#8220;You can&#8217;t regulate the internet&#8221;.  Take extra special note of the &#8220;very pregnant pause&#8221; when he realises what he said!  A full download of the interview is available <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/breakfast\/stories\/2010\/2824234.htm\">here<\/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>Okay &#8211; this comment was specifically in the context of IPTV, but if you can&#8217;t regulate the internet in terms of IPTV, how can you regulate it in terms of anything else?  How is IPTV content any different to any other internet content?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Oops!<\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE (1:07pm):<\/em> Nice to see some inventive people are taking notice of this post &#8211; for example, buy a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bsOSXA\">mug or t-shirt<\/a> now!  Keep up the good work folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Stephen Conroy &#8211; the great Canberra Communications Cluebie &#8211; was interviewed on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning &#8211; (19 February 2010) &#8211; in regards to a recent substantial ($250M) financial gesture to Australia&#8217;s commercial television networks. The context of the following portion of the discussion was IPTV and how it might effect minimum [&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":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}