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I responded to a recent GetUp campaign and wrote a missive to Senator Conroy about the Gov.s proposed Cleanfeed. I just got the response, one of those government emails filled with missives, warning of impending severe penalties for even mentioning that I'd heard from them. Maybe my computer will self destruct as it detects me writing these words. You would have seen similar I am sure,

The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may result in severe penalties.

If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the Security Advisor of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, 38 Sydney Ave, Forrest ACT 2603, telephone (02) 6271-1376 and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments.

Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Well at least they give a shit about the environment hey? The actual content of the message was held in an attached PDF much like the one shown in the image:

This is of course not the original, Stephen says I am not allowed to show it to you. Maybe if you write and ask he'll cut and paste you a response of your very own. I find it a little worrying that the Minister in charge of the interweb for Australia does not actually understand that putting a picture of his signature on a PDF document and attaching it to an email is silly.

ah well...

Ruben