Posts Tagged Stephen Conroy

Internet v3.0, a preview

December 12, 2010

Re: Internet usage infringement notification

Dear Mr. Sharp,

Thank you for choosing iiNET as your service provider.

In accordance with current Federal Government Communications regulations, we are now obliged to examine the browsing history of all iiNET customers to ensure that appropriate community standards of decency are being maintained and that inappropriate, obscene, illegal or offensive material is not being accessed.

On October 14, 2010, you accessed a YouTube page containing the words “Adolescent Sex”. Before we report this information to the appropriate Federal authorities, we seek clarification about the type of material you were accessing and would request you contact us immediately to provide us with further information.

Kind Regards,
The Team at iiNET

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Steve can have his interview, on one condition …

Last week in Senate Estimates the Liberal Party stopped grilling the ABC’s Mark Scott about Kerry O’Brien’s salary long enough for Family First’s Steve Fielding to make a complete idiot of himself. Again. If there’s one thing that unites Labor and the Coalition it must surely be a joint love of watching Fielding routinely embarrass himself just by opening his mouth. This chunk of transcript (PDF) deserves to be quoted in full; it’s just like the part of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry David keeps digging and digging himself into a terribly cringe-worthy situation instead of just shutting his mouth.

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