I hate to make a point with a sledgehammer, but Has anyone seen that
play The ISP-Level Filter Trial The Crucible?
Well, according to
Wiki, the play begins with
revelations that
most Australians some village girls may have
dabbled in a bit of
teh un-legal online activities witchcraft.
These were apparently
enabled by
off-shore hosted servers Tituba, one of the village family’s slaves, from Barbados.
Stephen Conroy Reverend John Hale is summoned to look into the incident. He is an
expert in
nothing occultist phenomena and is eager to put into practice
a completely disproportionate response his acquired learning.
He questions the other village girls, who, in an
attempt to avoid being deemed a
pr0n-watcher witch, profess a
blacklist of
websites people they’ve seen with
bit-torrent software the
Devil.
The play then tells of a descent into
hysteria and
injustice as
Conroy the villagers
accuses everyone else others in an attempt to save
his reputation themselves. Anyone who
dissents against the
irrational and deeply
flawed ISP-level filtering witchcraft trials are labelled
perverts witches, thus
undermining any rational criticism of the trials.
As
the bureaucrats Danforth says in
Senate Estimates Act III, “a
n ISP person is either
with this
filtering trial court or he
must be counted
as having something to hide against it.”
The
filteringwitch trials are the ultimate expression of
knee-jerk, politically driven madness i
ntolerance (and
the resulting cut in broadband speeds hanging witches is the ultimate
irony, coming from the Broadband Minister means of restoring the community's
purity); the trials brand all
free speech advocates social deviants with the taint of
child-pr0n devil-worship and thus necessitate their
elimination from the
debate community.
Hysteria supplants logic and enables
Conroy people to believe that
everyday Australianstheir neighbours, whom they have always considered
upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable
online crimes — communing with the
file sharersdevil, killing babies, and so on.
As we all know,
The ISP-Level Filter Trial The Crucible is symbolic of
the religious right’s 1950s American
paranoia about
moral decay communism and illustrates narrow-mindedness, excessive zeal and
disregard for the individual that characterised the government’s effort to
secure Stephen Fielding’s support in the Senate stamp out a perceived
social ill.
Should be coming to a
desktop theatre near you
shortly!You won't be able to Don't miss it!
2 comments:
I denounce these proceedings and i quit this trial... err... court.
Oh my god this was brilliant.
Sorry, I'm a bit behind. haven't checked your blog for two years. Glad to see you're still acerbic and very very smart.
Me, I've gone to fudge. But that's life with a double-wide pram.
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