One wonders what Senator Conroy's team thinks of the increasingly negative comments being heaped on their efforts to give Australia's Internet pipes a good going over with a bucket of Virtual Domestos.
It's not as if the Broadband Minister isn't doing anything else to stem the tide of criminal activity threatening kids online - in the latest plank in the $125.8 campaign, university researchers are looking into technical and behavioural measures children and parents can use to protect themselves from Internet predators.
Despite all this, the Government still can't seem to shake the belief that their Internet filtering proposal is going to do very bad things to the Internet in Australia.
The latest news that may have anti-clean feed advocates wondering if the whole thing will just be canned, is that the Opposition and Greens have been joined by another politicial protester against the idea.
The Opposition isn't opposed to tests themselves, but it's not exactly providing the endorsement the Government needs.
Throwing their voice into the mix is the Whirlpool site, which has published results of its 2008 Australian Broadband Survey. Whirlpool's news? That only 2% of Labor voters supported the filtering at the time of voting, so the Government has "no mandate" for filtering.
So far, various Australian ISPs have responded to the plans with skepticism. Mind you, if you think ISPs/Governments will never start policing what goes on via your Internet connection, it's already happening overseas here, and here.