Comments on: Will your blog be banned in Australia?

By: Stevian

Stevian — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:41:04 +0000

We’ll call that the lesser of two evils, shall we.
This from the GetUp! website:
“GetUp does not back any particular party, but aims to build an accountable and progressive Parliament – a Parliament with economic fairness, social justice and environment at its core.”
and I’ve asked them what there stance on censorship is, I’ll let you know what they say.

By: Yobbo

Yobbo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:20:16 +0000

Steve dude, they were at the federal election handing out how to vote cards with Labor as (1).

By: Stevian

Stevian — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:18:14 +0000

@Yobbo. Do you have a source for this or is it only your unsupported opinion. While I won’t rely on GetUp! to fight my battles for me, they have done a lot of good in raising awareness of many issues.

By: Yobbo

Yobbo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:48:19 +0000

Why would GetUp! do anything about this? They are a labor front group and this is being pushed by a labor government. GetUp! only had 1 concrete policy: “We hate John Howard”. They weren’t civil rights activists.

By: Mandatory filtering gets international coverage - Somebody Think Of The Children

Mandatory filtering gets international coverage - Somebody Think Of The Children — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:37:09 +0000

[...] Mandatory filtering gets international coverage October 17, 2008 – 11:46 pm Welcome readers of The Inquirer. You probably came here after clicking that strange picture of a large red rock on the side of The Inquirer’s website and are now wondering what on earth is going on? To put it simply, the Australian Government intends to censor Internet access down under. They are doing this despite their own lab tests showing filtering will reduce Internet speeds, block tens of thousands of innocent websites and be completely ineffective at it’s goal of protecting children. More about it’s failings here and will your blog be banned in Australia. [...]

By: Will your blog be banned? « Public Polity

Will your blog be banned? « Public Polity — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:13:33 +0000

[...] 13, 2008 Yes, the article’s a week old but it’s worth linking to. A post at “Somebody Think of the Children” raises the point that blogging in Australia could [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:08:12 +0000

Another fine example, Ell. Cheers.

By: ell

ell — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:44:10 +0000

A friend who works for a Govt agency in turf management had trouble getting emails from one of his contractors – the trouble – the mention of “wet spots” seem to throw the agency filter into a frenzy… we’re talking wet spots on footy ovals mind you! If this is the clunky kind of dumbness we’ll have to deal with, I give up.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:26:42 +0000

Cheers Don!

By: don

don — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:29:46 +0000

Mate, Love your work, Just discovered your site via Kwoff. Keep Going!