Filter Out Dickhead Senators

Dear reader, I gently refer you to the "No Clean Feed" banner on the right. Long story short, there's an Australian senator and douchebag named Stephen Conroy who is doing his utmost to install an all-pervasive clean-feed internet filter in this great nation. An automatic black-box to prohibit certain websites the government has decided are too nefarious or evil for you to look at. The "Great Firewall of Australia", if you will. The same as used in China, Iran, and other such progressive countries.

I'm not going to go through manifold issues and problems associated with this hair-brained scheme, because frankly they've been done to death and I'd start swearing loudly. Again I refer you to the banner.

Let me just say this: Conroy, you bleat about doing this primarily to stamp out child porn, terrorist sites, bomb making, and what have ya. You stick out your chest and bray that you are protecting The People. I say, what a load of bullshit. What a stinking crock of shite. What you are doing is jabbing a thumb into the eye of every law-abiding Australian. Everyone who is capable of monitoring their own kids' internet usage. Every Australian who can look after their own goddam affairs and don't need a bunch of pencil-neck bureaucrats treating them like children.

No. During this whole crooked affair, you have repeatedly demonstrated that you don't care about anything as frivolous as hard facts. You couldn't care less that this ridiculous filter is opposed by every telco in the country, and is a laughing stock internationally. You don't care a skeeter's-dicks-worth that to a determined pedophile, or any 13 year-old with half a brain, this firewall might as well be made of Swiss cheese. You can't stand the fact that your scheme has been exposed as an enormous, expensive flop and completely useless at its primary function.

It's not about child porn. It's not about terrorists. It's not about bomb-making websites. It's all about you, Senator Conroy, having a statue erected to yourself, and this moronic, Orwellian scheme is it. It would be laughable if it wasn't so f*cking perverse.

Sen. Conroy, you are the worst brand of arsehole. Instead of using taxpayers money for something useful, like, I dunno, building schools and roads, you instead dump millions down this sinkhole which is a testament to your mountainous ego. And at the same time do more to kill learning and free speech than anything cooked up in the Politburo's biggest wet dream. I can only hope that history will judge you and your firewall as the steaming pile of crap it is, and it will be used evermore as a bad example. I can also hope you die horribly.

But wait... Toot toot! Here comes the clean-feed gravy train, and it's not only pollys jumping on it. Now we have lilly-livered journos sticking their fingers down their throats and emitting sputum like this. Have a read all the way to the end. All I can say is, I see The Australian is still the pandering, slobbering idiot sidekick to the federal government it always has been.

And to the author, Mr Mark Day, you blind retard, I say: This is the thin end of the wedge. Restrictions on peoples' liberties imposed by the government always ratchet forward -- they never stay still, and never ever go back. Mark my words, if this firewall goes ahead, it will not stop there. And as for your comment that, if so, "there would be immediate marching in the streets and [Conroy'd] be drummed out of office"... well as my head tips back and I roar with laughter, it's painfully obvious that you, Mark Day, are a poor student of history. You are also a knob. But then, what do we expect from a Finance writer? Bet you didn't see the global meltdown coming, either. F*ckwit.