That was so shit. All the opponents of filtering looked like barely comprehensible, batshit libertarians. That publishing broad was fucking shit, and all the internet nerds were pathetic. "1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual", and that anonymous tool, made the opposition look like dickheads. Conroy and Bolt walked all over them.
There were obvious questions, screaming out to be asked. Conroy kept saying "we are interested in blocking child abuse, incest, rape resources". Why didn't anyone ask him to guarantee this is all he would be filtering?
It's not. Far from it.
He kept saying they would only be blocking "material that would normally be refused classification". This obviously leads into a broader debate, is the current censorship regime, where all x-rated material (X-rated is anything showing penetration, such as 95% of the material you'd find in any adult shop in Australia.) is illegal to view or distribute, really appropriate?
He's hiding behind the fact this material would be refused classification in Australia, when there's an obvious problem that a lot of this material shouldn't be refused classification in the first place, the existing classification system is a joke.
I don't think the panelists, or many people in the community, really understand what censorship laws are existent in Australia.