While Australia has led the way in many world first achievements…and we know we are good….look at our Olympic stats pound for pound….we’re up there…numero Uno most times! Yeah….we’re good….we know that.
In the last 10 years or so (under the Howard government), we’ve decided to become stooges to the Bush administration…we all know that….no need for referencing here. Trust me, most aussies don’t support that but our previous PM got his rocks off being photographed next to the numb nuts [about to leave the US presidency]. (Aside: smart people may judge that as the “dark ages” of US history).
Anyway, back to the point. Did we as a country decide, out of the blue, to start censorship of the Internet on our own and on behalf of our people? I can’t recall anything like this being the “Ausssie” thing to do?!
While the debate has raged for the last many months….and it is a no brainer….and we all know that…..our government continues to ignore critical thinkers and reason and progresses with the Chinese style approach. Lets not be PC because the politicians are not doing that themselves! I won’t go down that path again as I have been there in many many recent posts.
Let me throw the curve ball out there so to speak and suggest that Australia is being used as the “test” for Internet censorship within the world’s democratic nations. Oh….conspiracy theory you DD….UFOs as well???
Maybe I am wrong….but what better test/trial could you have than a small 20M population country (with a recent history of showing willingness to “support” larger democracies in idiotic ideas) to test how censorship in a supposed democracy could work?
I hope I am wrong….and for the rest of you democratic nations, I hope I am wrong also!
Many are thinking that technical issues will be the death of this but who’s to say that whether it works today or not will make one bit of difference? If Australia is the trial site for this as mentioned here, there is greater factors involved through deals that have been done with fellow ‘democratic’ nations. Lets not assume this is dead because we all know it won’t work today. There could be a bigger picture here that us tech people are not even thinking about. Now that is scary for everyone. 1984.
Pre-production testing environment – supplied by Australia for the US and Europe. Standard good SDLC practice!
You have to look outside of our own argument and think differently when it comes to how governments make decisions. We sit here and believe as critical thinkers that things will work out…..”our” logic seems right and we believe that the right decisions will be made based upon facts to date!
Dudes, history shows us that that is rarely the case! I know I keep repeating myself but we all knew that the Iraq invasion was based upon BS and yet it happened….We cannot become complacent and expect that a logical argument is going to kill this…..it won’t! Cards we are not seeing are being played, and as such, we cannot accept that being logical and fair minded will achieve our desired outcome!
We need to be loud and not PC with this! Being PC and trying to be nice will get us nowhere! The guys doing this are well prepared and ready to counter PC/technical/ethical arguments that we will give them! Let’s not think we are bringing something new to the table that will shock them into killing this project! To date, most of the initiatives have been naive in their approach!
This is going to happen and we’ll only stop it by being fucking hard with our stance. Excuse the language but let’s be real! Fairy floss websites and petitions alone will not cut it! I hope I am wrong!
Wikipedia added to blacklist
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/wikipedia-added-to-child-pornography-blacklist/2008/12/08/1228584723764.html
hmmm….. a bit heavy-handed, and they don’t even have a blanket filter like us
Conroy seems to be struggling to answer questions about this. Does he just not know or is there a bit more to this as mentioned? Question time video is not really adding much to our knowledge.
With a 70% popularity rating, K-Rudd can do what he likes at the moment. There is nothing we can do until the trial starts and we see some results before we start the anti-censorship protest again.
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