{"id":5151,"date":"2012-03-28T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2012-03-28T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T22:03:03","slug":"conroy-a-community-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/03\/conroy-a-community-visionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Conroy a Community Visionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had quite a chuckle reading the information screen in the lifts in my work building this morning, hearing that Stephen Conroy<\/a> has been named a “community visionary” by a New York-based think tank, the Intelligent Community Forum<\/a> (ICF), for his “critical role in transforming Australia’s digital future, under the NBN”.<\/p>\n

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Conroy Named a Community Visionary<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

While I’m – (as regular readers of this site would know) – a great supporter of the NBN<\/a> project, I’m a little puzzled. Conroy is undoubtedly the political champion of the project, but let us not forget that he is also the political champion of another project.<\/p>\n

The mandatory internet filter.<\/p>\n

The mandatory internet filter that sees Australia on the “countries under surveillance<\/a>” list, with respect to the “enemies of the internet” list, for holding the filtering plan as official policy.<\/p>\n

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The mandatory internet filter that would set up a government-controlled censorship mechanism, using a secret list of URLs, based on a badly broken Australian classification system.<\/p>\n

I wonder what the New York-based think tank would “think” of that, in respect to “transforming Australia’s digital future”.<\/p>\n

I don’t think they would be too enamoured with it.<\/p>\n

Think about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had quite a chuckle reading the information screen in the lifts in my work building this morning, hearing that Stephen Conroy has been named a “community visionary” by a New York-based think tank, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), for his “critical role in transforming Australia’s digital future, under the NBN”. Conroy Named a Community […]<\/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":[100,368,384,404],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-auspol","tag-nbn","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","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=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}