So i had the interesting opportunity to meet with Senator Stephen Conroy this week.



Stephen Conroy described himself as "the most hated man on the Australian internet", but despite the amount of stick i have given to him on twitter, to be fair he seemed really nice, was well spoken and had some interesting points to say.
His work on the NBN is clearly and genuinely focused on the best interests for the nation which was nice to see.

Im still completely confused as to why he is so passionately behind the NetFilter, which is almost universally declared as a bad idea from everyone in the internet industry. I guess i never really understood why people felt the moral right to try to dictate or regulate the behavior of others.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough". - Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1950

Anyways,  In summary Stephen Conroy was a nice enough bloke, in retrospect i wish i had more of a succinct argument to put to him about the Netfilter.

Labels: internet, politics

Posted by Nick HaC @ 2:00 PM