Australia deserves an Open Internet
1 The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan to filter the Internet will not protect children from inappropriate material. 2 The filter will not prevent criminals from accessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. This type of material is not distributed in the open and we need to fund police to continue to infiltrate and prosecute the groups of people responsible for creating and distributing such material. 3 The filter will block access to material that is currently legal to possess and view, just not to sell and publicly display. The list of material to be banned is much more than child sexual abuse material. The banned category of material is anything that has been 'refused classification', which in the past has included websites about euthanasia, controversial movies such as Ken Park and Baise-moi, and many games that are designed for people over 16 years of age.
February 15, 2010
Open Internet
February 11, 2010
Free TV handouts: we don’t know the half of it – Crikey
The big beneficiary is Kerry Stokes and his family with whom, as The Australian noted yesterday, Kevin Rudd spent the night at Stokes’s Broome mansion.
via crikey.com.au
So I'm paying for stuff I don't even watch? Hmmm, can't you just give my piece to the ABC or Foxtel?
February 10, 2010
Being where Janet Albrechtsen cannot do simple maths
Wilders's Freedom Party is presently the most popular political party in The Netherlands. In last year's elections for the European Parliament, it won 17 per cent of the vote, second only to the ruling Christian Democrats on 19.9 per cent.
The case for climate action must be remade from the ground upwards | Ian Katz The Guardian
Those who want action on climate change will meanwhile have to accept a more incremental approach. Mead describes the effort to secure a global deal as "like asking a jellyfish to climb a flight of stairs; you can poke and prod all you want, you can cajole and you can threaten. But you are asking for something that you just can't get". Even the head of an NGO who has argued passionately for a binding, comprehensive deal tells me: "Maybe you've got to unpick the uber-deal and work out which bits are possible to do now, and build confidence."
Finally, anyone who cares about this issue must fight to keep it alive.
via guardian.co.uk
We still believe in the agreed science. However, the greyness at the edges, the scare stories must stop - as I've written before.
February 09, 2010
Pixies – Oh My Golly! – Discover music at Last.fm
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