Cross-posted from The Carapace I have written about the planned internet censorship in Australia in the Young Australian Skeptics already. If this weren’t enough cause for concern it has now come to light that in an attempt to prop up Senator Conroy’s failing internet filter Australian customs have been given the power to search travellers lap tops and phones […]
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Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one’. Today we are at risk of losing one of our freedoms, and once you lose one, the rest fall like dominoes. I am referring to the Australian Government mandatory internet […]
It can hardly have escaped the notice of even the most vaguely politically inclined that the current state of affairs with our de-facto two party system is less than ideal for the left-leaning voter. We have, in simple terms, a decision between Tony Abbott’s Super-Catholic Hooray Party and our current mob, who are steadily transforming into […]
If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the past few days you might have noticed that the Australian Government has decided to go ahead with their Internet Filter. Telegraph.co.uk has a good summary of the news in their article: Australia plans Chinese-style internet filtering Basically the filter will remove sites that have RC-rated material, which includes:
Now I was planning to write a nice long screed about censorship in Australia, particularly as it pertains to video games. Of course, knowing how I write and how gamers work I’ve decided to avoid the whole tl;dr syndrome and just write something short. Games are currently being censored and banned because we don’t have an […]
