Internet Villain of the Year Stephen Conroy Resigns 67
An anonymous reader writes "Australian Communications Minister and [2009's] Internet Villain of the Year Stephen Conroy has resigned after his patron was booted out by her party. Conroy gained infamy through his repeated attempts to censor the internet and more recently silent web site blocking, web snooping and data retention. His national broadband network remains controversial."
Re:One down (Score:2, Insightful)
What makes these revelations even more offensive are our elected representatives’ refusal to come clean. It is clear that the extent of Australian – United States cooperation on monitoring of citizens is not limited to special targets of high risk, identified and approved by lawful warrant to be intercepted and surveilled. No. It is all of us, all the time.
NBN controversial? (Score:5, Insightful)
Smell the flamebait.
The Uncle-Rupert article you linked to mentions an absurd claim high speed internet is a major health risk because of disturbing asbestos-laden pits in the process of replacing copper with fibre.
Quite rightly Conroy called it out as ridiculous. These same pits would need to be accessed in laying fibre-to-the-node.