When ISPs get miffed down under they don’t pull any punches. As the Aussie government has tried to impose net filtering on an unwilling public and IT community, the head of one of Australia's largest ISPs has resorted to abuse.

Michael Malone, managing director iiNet, said he would sign up to be involved in the "ridiculous" trials, which are scheduled to commence by December 24 this year. His aim was to show how ridiculous the whole idea was.  He also said that the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is the worst Australia has had in the past 15 years.

Conroy was not listening to the experts, or the industry, or consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help. Malone said that every time a kid manages to get through this filter, we'll be publicising it and every time it blocks legitimate content, we'll be publicizing it, too.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam accused Conroy of misleading the public by falsely claiming his mandatory censorship plan was similar to that already in place in Sweden, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. In fact, the only two countries who had a similar system were China and Saudi Arabia.