SENATOR STEPHEN CONROY, Minister for Broadband e.t.c e.t.c was questioned once again about his Internet filtering scheme in Question time today. This time by Senator Cory Bernardi, Senator for South Australia

Senator Cory Bernardi asked the Minister three simple questions:

“How many customers would an ISP need to enlist for a trial to be credible, and will the results be independently examined and verified?”

After hearing Senator Conroy’s response he commented and asked an additional question:

“Well President, I know that the minister failed miserably to answer that question of which was specific about the number of people for a trial to be credible, but I also note that in the Expression of Interest document that the second stream of the trial includes the filtering of other unwanted content, and I ask the Minister if this unwanted content has actually been identified, and who has it been identified by?”

Again Conroy dodged the question.

“I asked the minister: Considering that the stage for trialling filters was mandatory for ISP level filtering policy is only just beginning, why is he closing the Coalition Government, free personal computer level filter scheme on December 31, before having any alternative in place to assist families with online safety?”

Once again Senator Conroy read his department’s script about how the Government plans to implement the filter blah blah blah.

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