ACMA chief Chris Chapman scapegoats media
Recently Chris Chapman, head of the ACMA, sent out an email to his staff which has subsequently been leaked to the media.
Whilst the entire contents of the email haven’t been publicly released, most likely due to condifentiality concerns, News.com.au have quoted some snippets from the leaked email.
“I write to you because you cannot have missed the resultant media storm,” said Mr Chapman in the email to department staff.
“Much of the reporting has verged on the breathless.”
“Murphy’s law would have it that the incorrectly included URL involved Henson, and this was all that was needed for people to connect the dots on some conspiracy,” he said.
“ACMA has conducted a full review of additions to the list for this period and found that this is the only URL where a computer system error resulted in the URL being incorrectly added.”
Mr Chapman said the watchdog was looking at ways to prevent further leaks.
Is it any wonder that the media went nuts over the contents of your leaked blacklist?! Had it not have been leaked who knows for how much longer the url invoving Henson might have been blacklisted.
This point is at the very centre of concerns Australians have over your ridiciulous blacklist. If you stuffed up once over a 1000 strong url blacklist, just how many errors are you going to make with a 10,000+ blacklist and just how the hell are we supposed to believe there will be no errors on it with no public scrutiny over ACMA’s actions?
Instead of admitting they stuffed up and human error is very much able to ‘taint’ the effectiveness of the blacklist Chapman comes out blaming ‘technology’ and media histeria. Gee, well that’s all my reservations laid to rest.
It is very re-assuring to know that instead of ditching a failed system that instead ACMA are pouring all their efforts into making sure none of their mistakes are ever leaked to the public again.
Hey Chapman, if you weren’t running around the country sprouting bullshit like this:
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