Stephen Conroy is Australia’s Communications Minister and, in that role, has been instrumental in pushing for ISP-level traffic filters that will block access to illegal content by his nation’s citizens. Conroy has pushed for that plan despite resistance from ISPs, problems during testing, and worrisome vagueness about the limits on what will be filtered. Not surprisingly, his actions have inspired a bit of push-back, from a “Fake Steve Conroy” Twitter feed to the parody site stephen-conroy.com. Over the holiday break, that latter site saw Australian domain registrars pull its DNS entry, essentially silencing the protest. But the site is back, and appears to be here to stay, thanks to some quick thinking by its backers.
The site is not likely to be popular with its target, as the header image shows what appears to be a hybrid Conroy-Colbert, and refers to him as the “Minister for Fascism.” The first entry on the site is a YouTube video showing a Downfall parody that describes recent events. Those events started when the site’s backers found out that Conroy had neglected to register domains based on his own name, allowing them to sweep in and grab them in order to host their protests against his filtering plans.
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