Comments on: Vale Free Speech Online in Australia http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/ blogging is not a spectator sport Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More | www.nickhodge.com http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-212883 Our Benevolent Federal Government should Filter More | www.nickhodge.com Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:11:19 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-212883 [...] over ?¢‚ǨÀúNet filtering. Some people mention this is a mere policy dump on the last day of 2007. Of course, the Australian web 2.0 community is not necessarily happy about all this talk of censorsh.... OK, can we then get our trusty government and ACMA to stop the SPAM I get from Nigerian scammers [...] [...] over ?¢‚ǨÀúNet filtering. Some people mention this is a mere policy dump on the last day of 2007. Of course, the Australian web 2.0 community is not necessarily happy about all this talk of censorsh…. OK, can we then get our trusty government and ACMA to stop the SPAM I get from Nigerian scammers [...]

]]> By: Cam http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-212376 Cam Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:30:04 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-212376 This troubles me (http://tinyurl.com/33gfj5): ?¢‚Ǩ?ìLabor makes no apologies to those who argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road,?¢‚Ǩ¬ù Mr Conroy said yesterday. ?¢‚Ǩ?ìIf people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù So if I opt out of the filter I'm assumed to be watching child porn? You've got to be joking. If the black list contains child porn sites it is a logical certainty that the government is aware of said child porn sites. Adding the site to the GFOA doesn't abrogate the governemnt of the moral responsibility incumbent upon it - send some attack helicopters or ninja assassins or, fuck me, the local constabulary. And in doing so make the filter unnecessary. That is, unless it has shit all to do with protecting the kiddies... This troubles me (http://tinyurl.com/33gfj5):

?¢‚Ǩ?ìLabor makes no apologies to those who argue that any regulation of the internet is like going down the Chinese road,?¢‚Ǩ¬ù Mr Conroy said yesterday. ?¢‚Ǩ?ìIf people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

So if I opt out of the filter I’m assumed to be watching child porn? You’ve got to be joking.

If the black list contains child porn sites it is a logical certainty that the government is aware of said child porn sites. Adding the site to the GFOA doesn’t abrogate the governemnt of the moral responsibility incumbent upon it – send some attack helicopters or ninja assassins or, fuck me, the local constabulary.

And in doing so make the filter unnecessary. That is, unless it has shit all to do with protecting the kiddies…

]]> By: John Evans (Syntagma) http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-211800 John Evans (Syntagma) Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:23:02 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-211800 Missing Howard already? :) Missing Howard already? :)

]]> By: Delicate Genius Blog » Please sir, can I have some porn? REDUX http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-211741 Delicate Genius Blog » Please sir, can I have some porn? REDUX Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:01:04 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-211741 [...] as Duncan Riley reports on both TechCrunch and his personal blog?Ǭ†Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced that there will be mandatory filtering on [...] [...] as Duncan Riley reports on both TechCrunch and his personal blog?Ǭ†Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced that there will be mandatory filtering on [...]

]]> By: Australia is going to be stupider in 2008 | www.nickhodge.com http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-211725 Australia is going to be stupider in 2008 | www.nickhodge.com Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:23:55 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-211725 [...] Mandatory censorship is bad. Strange day for an announcement: a day when the power-that-be deliver our deserved bread and circuses. [...] [...] Mandatory censorship is bad. Strange day for an announcement: a day when the power-that-be deliver our deserved bread and circuses. [...]

]]> By: knowledge is everywhere http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-211703 knowledge is everywhere Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:48:34 +0000 http://www.duncanriley.com/2007/12/31/vale-free-speech-online-in-australia/#comment-211703 <strong>My favourite tools of 2007 and the biggest tool of 2007</strong> My favourite tools of 2007: Twitter - if you don’t get it, you don’t have enough contacts or you’re not asking the right questions Akismet - oh how I love you. Akismet has caught 23,003 spam for me since I first installed it. Wordpres... My favourite tools of 2007 and the biggest tool of 2007

My favourite tools of 2007:
Twitter – if you don’t get it, you don’t have enough contacts or you’re not asking the right questions
Akismet – oh how I love you. Akismet has caught 23,003 spam for me since I first installed it.
Wordpres…

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