Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Following the government’s announcement last year, civil libertarian group Electronic Frontiers Australia repeated the claims of Reporters Without Borders in an article written by its CEO, Colin Jacobs, in Crikey. While one could possibly excuse Reporters Without Borders for being ignorant of the government’s policy, the same cannot be said of the locally run EFA, who, through Colin Jacobs, chairman Nick Suzor and board member Geordie Guy, have run a campaign to deliberately mislead the Australian public. They have argued there is no child abuse material traded on the open internet, yet at the latest count there were 355 child abuse URLs on the ACMA black list and therefore the open internet. They have argued that filtering will slow the internet and will result in overblocking, despite the independent live pilot trial showing that internet filtering can be done. (Time expired)