National Automotive Safety Advisors?

I don't think its that they don't want the Government to intervene. Look at who has implemented it, we will ignore the two small ISPs for now. Telecom, Vodafone and Telstra Clear are all network owners in New Zealand.

The government is currently deciding who will get 1.5 billion dollars to roll out fibre to the home in the main towns of New Zealand replacing Telecom's network and to a lesser extent taking customers off Telstra Clear's cable networks in Wellington and Christchurch. Telecom has placed two bids for the fibre money. Vodafone with its mobile network is interested in the second stage of funding for rural broadband. So they have reason to buddy up with the Government, Telecom in particular because it has the most to lose.

It is also interesting that one of the ISPs that say they are not going to use the filter is Orcon, which is owned by Kordia, which is a state owned enterprise. The government can't even get the ISP they own to use it.

It is not Firefox specific, I get the weird boxes and icons in Safari on Windows and Mac OS X and yes it did start about the same time as the white on white comment title was fixed. Perhaps it is a coincidence but since the bug was fixed I have had a new set of mod points every three days.