AFTER getting poor responses from Stephen Conroy’s office and being referred to my local member, Shadow MP Ian Macfarlane as discussed in Part One of this article, I started a small email chain with my local member.
First of all I want to publicly acknowledge that Mr Macfarlane has been quite efficient and reliable with his replies, and I appreciate he’s keeping in contact personally with the members of his electorate. His responses have always been received the next business day after I email him.
I asked Mr Macfarlane some follow up questions and he was kind enough to reply to me.
WHEN you send a Government department an email or a letter relating to
a piece of legislation they’re trying to pass that you wish to comment
on, you’d generally expect either a response noting your input, or no
response at all.
What you don’t expect is to be referred to email your local MP of whom is
a member of the Opposition, and holds a Shadow portfolio in no way
related to the issue at hand.
The response I got from the local MP was even sadder.
THIS afternoon the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy officially released a wide net expression of interest for a trial phase of ISP level filtering.
According to publicly available documents that have been released by the Department…
“Limited funding is available for ISPs participating in the Pilot”
What exactly does this mean? Read more
AUSSIE YouTube user AngyAussie has released a new video regarding “How to fight Internet censorship in Australia”.
It’s great to see the YouTube community getting together to make sense of the details at hand.
Show notes @ http://www.techwiredau.com/?p=1101
Australian Internet Filter – Interview With Media Contact Tim Marshall For Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy.
Expression of Interest announced as an upcoming proposal announced for live testing to occur amongst Australian ISP’s.
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