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Joe Hockey speaks sense on liberty…

and I almost fall off my chair.

 

 

I particularly like his line on “protecting liberty against both known and future threats” and his point about the labour stunt.

He loses me a bit on the violent games marlarky.  I am quite sure that the only thing you develop from playing computer games is enhanced problem solving [...]

Censordyne Censored

It seemed as if talk of the flawed government filtering proposal had gone quite.  My Google alerts only dug up old news, ridicule from overseas, and dated blog posts.  This no doubt, suited Senator Conroy, he could quietly let this donkey of a policy die or perhaps seize the initiative and get the jump on [...]

Censordyne – the Australian Governments response to online child abuse

 

You can sign up to the getup campaign here.

The Australian government is being obstinate. 

There is no sense to the filtering proposal. 

It is being driven by ideology, religiosity or politics – perhaps all three?

Save the Children oppose the ISP Filter

ABC Online parliamentary correspondent Emma Rodgers informs us that:

Save the Children has urged the Federal Government to abandon its plans to censor the internet, saying it will not be effective in protecting kids from online dangers. [read more]

Please Senator Conroy, when you have  those who actually work on the frontline of child protection telling you [...]

Big Brother is quite literally watching… err reading you

According to the Brisbane Times:

The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with official documents singling out a website critical of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.

Tender documents issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy reveal it is looking for a “monitoring [...]