Update 6:40PM May 6: Ticket is still available. I can’t make it down to Sydney next week as planned, so my ticket to IQ2 Oz’s Governments should not censor the Internet debate to be held at Angel Place (Tuesday May 11 at 6:30PM) is up for grabs. The only catch is I’d like the winner to write a brief review of the event to be published on this blog. If that sounds like you, email me your details and I’ll express post the ticket.
Speaking against net censorship is journo and author Antony Loewenstein, Google’s Ross LaJeunesse and David Marr. For is Professor and Associate Dean of Law at Flinders University, Elizabeth Handsley, Beijing-based columnist Kaiser Kuo and Alastair MacGibbon, founder of the Internet Safety Institute and Managing Partner of internet consultancy the Surete Group.
When I bought the ticket back in January Senator Conroy was set to speak. Unfortunately, he’s pulled out (for whatever reason). Nevertheless, there’s still a great range of range of high-profile and knowledgeable speakers so I’m sure it’ll be interesting
Event details:
Governments should not censor the internet
May 11, 6:30PM
City Recital Hall Angel Place
2-12 Angel Place
SydneyArchitects of the internet have championed its promise as an instrument of liberty – a free-wheeling republic in which the ordinary person can bypass the gatekeepers of power and influence.
Beneath the shiny towers of liberty electronic sewers run thick with child pornography, terrorist propaganda, racial hatred, crazy conspiracies and other products of the grimy denizens of the internet’s underworld.
Some governments think that they should protect us from what they deem to be harmful to the common weal.
Can we not be trusted to care for ourselves? And if not, then will censorship inevitably shut out the light along with the dark?
It is important that audience members are seated by 6.35pm as the event will be screened live.
You can also buy yourself a ticket here.
