ALMOST makes me want to vote for Turnbull… ALMOST.
You can contact the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and voice your opinion…
Senator Stephen Conroy
Ministerial office
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002
Tel: 03 9650 1188
Fax: 03 9650 3251
Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government’s pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.
Under the government’s $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material.
Pundits say consumers have been lulled into believing the opt-out proviso would remove content filtering altogether.
The government will iron-out policy and implementation of the Internet content filtering software following an upcoming trial of the technology, according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
A spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the filters will be mandatory for all Australians.
“Labor’s plan for cyber-safety will require ISPs to offer a clean feed Internet service to all homes, schools and public Internet points accessible by children,” Marshall said.
“The upcoming field pilot of ISP filtering technology will look at various aspects of filtering, including effectiveness, ease of circumvention, the impact on internet access speeds and cost.”
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) contacted by Computerworld say blanket content filtering will cripple Internet speeds because the technology is not up to scratch.
Online libertarians claim the blacklists could be expanded to censor material such as euthanasia, drugs and protest.
If you haven’t yet enrolled to vote and in a state where you still can, then do it! Vote! Let CBS’s “Late Late Show” host Craig Furguson explain why you should…
The New Yorker has endorsed Barack Obama for President and in doing so summed up my feelings about Sarah Palin far more eloquently than I ever could. I have been trying to think of the way I could post my absolute bewilderment and sickening realisation this woman could lead the free world for a while and now I don’t have to.
We are watching a candidate for Vice-President cram for her ongoing exam in elementary domestic and foreign policy. This is funny as a Tina Fey routine on “Saturday Night Live,” but as a vision of the political future it’s deeply unsettling. Palin has no business being the backup to a President of any age, much less to one who is seventy-two and in imperfect health. In choosing her, McCain committed an act of breathtaking heedlessness and irresponsibility.
At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness… It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.
Let’s be honest McCain will not win on the economy. He wants to retain the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, can’t remember how many houses he and his wife own and is on the wrong side of the American public on the subject of what rich is.
Obama on the other hand will repeal the tax cuts for the wealthy, stop giving huge incentives to big oil and hopefully will finally catch America up to the rest of the civilised world with free and equal healthcare. This should be a Democratic year but there is still some poll problems for Obama - no doubt helped by ridiculous rumors about his faith - that discredited internet lie pushed by Fox News and other right wing media outlets.
Not to mention the constant re-occurrence of ‘Elitism’. Right because a son of a single mother with a distant dad, living in Indonesia and Hawaii as a child - near slums in Indonesia. That’s elitism alright! Owning Seven houses on the other hand? Well… that’s just a good investment? Real down to earth with working families.
What is Elitism?
1. practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
…and what is an Elite?
1. (often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
2. (used with a plural verb) persons of the highest class: Only the elite were there.
Awful isn’t it!
Oh! Did you hear!? Obama went to Harvard! Elitist! God forbid America has a smart President for the first time in 8 years. That would be disastrous. We remember what happened in 1992 when a smart President was elected. Record surpluses! Horrible thing that! Bush helped create half a trillion dollars of debt - what’s that about Republican’s and the Economy?
Lastly, what’s with the Media Loves Obama stories? The media can’t seem to bring up McCain without mentioning his war record. How’s that? Yes he was incredibly brave and honorable but what does that have to do with an affair with his wife, the economy or the War in Iraq? Nothing.
He may be a war hero - but his policies leave a lot to be desired for a country in the brink of self implosion.
