Rubénerd!

For those of us who were disappointed that the Electronic Frontiers Australia chairman Dale Clapperton's recent breakfast television appearance was valuable but too short, yesterday he appeared on The Spoonman on Triple M and was able to go into much more detail and discuss the real dangers of the federal government's plan to filter and censor the internet, especially poignant given our recent salute to those who died protecting freedoms on Remembrance Day.

Candidly, we really need someone like Dale in charge of communications and the internet in this country and not Senator Conroy.

There's an audio link to the show on the latest post of the No Internet Censorship for Australia blog. The transcript of part one of the show with Dale Clapperton is available from Hoyden About Town.

UPDATE: If you read this blog using an RSS reader you wouldn't have seen, but Dale actually posted a comment! You can reach him at his aptly-named blog Defending Scoundrels

Browsing the Electronic Frontiers Australia website this afternoon, I noticed that Dale Clapperton appeared on The Morning Show on the 29th of October. I completely missed it, but fortunately they have a video. Sorry about it being in Flash.

EFA’s Chair, Dale Clapperton, was interviewed on Channel 7's [Morning Show] program on 29th October about the government’s proposed mandatory filtering policy. A phone-in survey on the program revealed that 80% of respondents were opposed to the censorship plan.

Given the severity of the issue, I just wish he could have appeared on the show for longer.