GetUp! gets up with ISP Filtering 26 Nov 2008 GetUp! is an excellent organisation that has been attacking the draconian laws of the “war” on terror, antigay laws, and so on. They now have a petition against ISP filtering. Go for it… Hat tip Samuel Douglas Censorship Internet filtering Politics Technology
Politics Beatles’ ode to John Howard 27 Nov 2007 This is kicking a man when he’s down, but the iPod popped this up to me last night, and I thought how appropriate it is to the election outcome: Read More
Politics The Haneef washup 1 Feb 200818 Sep 2017 Readers will know that I got very angry about the Haneef Affair, in which a muslim Indian doctor was accused of being a terrorist and deported by the improper abuse of power by the minister for immigration of the previous government [here, here, here, here, here and here]. Now his… Read More
Education What is “secular”? 13 May 200918 Sep 2017 In keeping with the last post on humanities, I thought I’d ruminate with no effort or knowledge to back it up on what the term “secular” means. If the fundamentalists are to be believed, it is a synonym of “humanist” and also “Satanist”, “infidel” and “homosexual”. But somewhat more seriously,… Read More
Well, if I can’t petition the Aussie gov. against this measure, then at least know that this “Xeno” is phobic on censorship. Good luck on keeping this threat at bay. It’s rather illustrative that the 1996 efforts in the U.S. Congress to promote filtering turned into a weird boondoggle for services such as “netnanny” and “cybercop” that afforded no protection but cost plenty. And I wonder how many people installed such services only to find that a:) their kids were smarter than they were and circumvented the serviced and b:) the adults grew impatient at having to take the extra step to “Approve” even regular sites with “bad words” occasionally sprinkled. Librarians in Minnesota fought efforts by the Republican legislature to require installation of “third-party” blocking software because, as they argued, their research showed that too many educational sites were being blocked. For their efforts, cultural “conservatives” labeled them “smut purveyors.”
It looks like the Greens will block it in the Senate. It seems Krudd hasn’t offered them a big enough carrot. Hopefully there is no carrot big enough to make them change their minds. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24703499-5014239,00.html
Thanks for the link. I have signed it. Hopefully this filtering will die a very, very quick death and the government can get back to more important matters like Julia Gillard’s hair.