Well at least according to Whirlpool. Or if you believe ZDNet he’s still the minister but has scrapped the filter. Visit Overclockers though and you’ll see it’s already in action. Heck, I’m just glad we’re finally getting net licenses.
Overclockers.com.au front page this morning.
8 comments
k0mmissar says:
Apr 1, 2009
April Fools?
Too good to be true, huh
Kyle says:
Apr 1, 2009
we can only wish that the filter had been scrapped and Conroy sacked. I knew people would create jokes like that on April 1st.
Joey B says:
Apr 1, 2009
You got me excited then!
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John says:
Apr 1, 2009
“we can only wish that the filter had been scrapped and Conroy sacked.”
+1
Syd Walker says:
Apr 2, 2009
I think April’s Fools Jokes can be powerful exercises in something that, for want of a better term, I’ll call ‘white magic’.
One of my little jests two years back preceded a change in State government policy along precisely the lines suggested in the ‘joke’.
Let’s hope the ZDNet/Meloni jokes comes true – as opposed to Overclockers’s dark humour.
Bob Bain says:
Apr 2, 2009
Earlier today on EBay…
Sale of Minister for Broadband and Communications Stephen Conroy
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180342524797
Current bid: AU $30.00
End time: 11-Apr-09 19:59:26 AEST (9 days 12 hours)
Postage: AU $50.00
Courier
Service to Australia
Posts to: Australia
Item location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
being sold by Krudd 53
http://myworld.ebay.com.au/krudd53/
Member: since 01-Apr-09 in Australia
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That was earlier this morning. The bid has escalated to $36 in just a few hours.
“Stephen Michael Conroy (born 18 January 1963 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, near Norwich) is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in the Rudd Labor Government. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since May 1996, representing the state of Victoria. He’s the big mouth of Broadband and Communications in Australia – The uneducated idiot that plans to filter all internet content at an ISP level for end users. The rightful owner will have full use of Mr Conroy – As you see fit. (Although It is recommended only bringing him out for sexual pleasure at parties.) He has failed the Australian Government as Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. The asking price is around $8’000, or best offer. but send me your thoughts, No reasonable offer refused. He will be delivered via FedEX Courier Service to your doorstep where you can do with him as you wish. More Images are available via email on request – Including Nooooodes. Signed, K Rudd.
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Bob (who anticipates an inflatible replica may be supplied – for “sexual pleasure at parties”)
Glenn says:
Apr 2, 2009
Obviously eBay found this unacceptable and deleted the auction. How do I know? Because when I visit the page, it says “This Listing Is Unavailable”.
Bob Bain says:
Apr 2, 2009
“Obviously eBay found this unacceptable and deleted the auction.”
See…
http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=3709
The full eBay ad — just in case it is pulled by the time you read this…..
and
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25279391-5014239,00.html
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy ‘auctioned’ on eBay
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
April 02, 2009 02:30pm
A PRANK auction has been taken offline after someone tried to sell Communications Minister Stephen Conroy on eBay.
Bidding had passed $700 by the time it was taken offline, almost 24 hours after it was posted.
A cheeky eBay user, screen name “krudd53″, said the asking price for the politician was “around $8000 or best offer… No reasonable offer
refused.”
The bids escalated from $30 to $765 within hours. Prospective buyers even submitted their own joking questions about the mock auction.
“I am interested in a new communications minister, but I am worried that the one you have for sale is not fit for this purpose. What is your return policy?,” asked one bidder.
The answer: “Hello fellow Australian, Stephen is better suited to a communist country. K Rudd.”
The seller was apparently protesting the Government’s proposed web filtering scheme.
Bob