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
Australian stuff The decline of Australian progressivism 25 Mar 201225 Mar 2012 Australian state Queensland had an election yesterday, and the result went from a Labor government to a virtual elimination of Labor in the state parliament. This follows, and exceeds, similar defeats in New South Wales last year, and Victoria the year before. Each year, the defeats increase. Victoria went from… Read More
Evolution Images on evolution outreach 17 Jan 200818 Sep 2017 Colin Purrington has a nice set of publicly available images for use in pro-science talks. Go check ’em out. Read More
Evolution A final note on Expelled 24 Mar 2008 This is a nice review in New Scientist, obviously “framed” more in sorrow and confusion than in anger, which ends with Throughout the entire experience, Maggie and I couldn’t help feeling that the polarised audience in the theater was a sort of microcosm of America, and let me tell you… 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.