Australian carriers try to head off government telco security bill

Australian attorney-general George Brandis' plans to turn his department into a national telco chief security officer are to be carpet-bombed by a coalition of industry groups opposing the proposed laws. In a submission leaked to the ABC and The Australian Financial Review and since sighted by The Register, a bunch of industry …

[FozzyBear]

All your base belong to us

Along with your data, your privacy and anything else we can think of. Data rention laws, national internet filters and now this. Man, ignorance is bliss , at least wouldn't know that my basic freedoms and rights are being flushed down the toilet.

[aberglas]

"National Security"

All that a bureaucrat needs to do is mention those two magic words and Brandis will sign anything.

[Cpt Blue Bear]

Re: "National Security"

Indeed, every time I see Brandis on TV he looks like a scared rabbit in the headlights. He's clearly been house trained in the Yes, Minister sense by the security services he's supposed to oversee.

[MikeGale]

Blessed are the societies that put control of their future in the hands of the Stupidocracy, for they shall go extinct.

[Frank Oz]

Frredom of Speech

At the moment the government would probably like to shut down all forms of social media ... because they've been getting hammered there for so many embarrassing missteps, faux pas and incidents of downright incompetence of late that they've finally realised that just having the Murdoch Press on their side is not enough to insulate them from the furnace of public indignation.

They'd love to shut down Twitter, FaceBook, Digg and any number of platforms. To hammer Google and especially You Tube for all those nasty parodies and endlessly repeated news items that so distress them.

Can they do it? Not in this universe. But that won't stop them from trying ... obviously on 'national security' grounds.