More on ISP filtering 6 Dec 2008 At my other blog here. Also see Ars Technica: Here’s an idea: if the Australian government actually finds child porn, nuclear bomb making manuals, and the like on the Internet, why not do their best to find the perpetrators and put them behind bars? That way we get to keep our free speech and have less crime and terrorism, rather than less of the former without actually reducing the latter. Then again, imposing restrictions on what local taxpayers can do is a lot easier than tracking down and rounding up international criminals and terrorists, and the filtering plan is moving forward despite the massive and fairly obvious drawbacks. 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
Ethics and Moral Philosophy The hammer of religious faith 24 May 2009 To a man with a hammer, everything is a nail. But hammers actually have a purpose that is useful. They do things. Some religious belief is rather more like a man with an imaginary hammer. The outgoing and obviously not-to-be-missed Archbishop of Westminster, the man who thinks you aren’t entirely… Read More
General Science Creationist lawsuit thrown out 13 Sep 2007 Larry Caldwell, a well-known proponent of antievolutionism, tried and failed to get “the controversy” taught in the school district of his kids’ school. He failed, so he sued the school board because he was “discriminated against… for being Christian”. The suit was just thrown out. What bothers me is not… Read More