Internet Censorship - have your say.
SOUTH Australian laws censoring anonymous political comment on the internet have sparked national and international outrage, with readers comparing the “draconian laws” to those in Nazi Germany and China.
Well over 1000 people had posted comments on the AdelaideNow website up to midnight last night - most vehemently against the Rann Government’s legislation which will force internet bloggers and anyone publishing a comment on next month’s state election to supply their real name and postcode.
A poll reveals more than 90 percent of readers are against the laws, which carry a maximum fine of $5,000 for media organisations who do not hand over such information to the Electoral Commissioner.
In an extraordinary response to the story, readers have compared the law to those used in Nazi Germany, China, George Orwell’s 1984 and North Korea, including Mark Burns Springer from the United States.
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Tags: australia, net censorship
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:50 am
http://www.news.com.au/technology/attorney-general-michael-atkinson-vows-to-repeal-election-internet-censorship-law/story-e6frfro0-1225826176628
WOW - it worked!!!!
February 3rd, 2010 at 2:02 pm
This is one of the best deversions I have seen since the Moniker Lywinsky (sorry about spelling) BS in the states. We are now al focused on the small and inconsequential point of censorship and are mising the big picture. The govenment is spending millions of dollars on a tramline and other unneccassary things whilst ignoring other infrastructure that needs drastic improvement. the best examples are Norlunga Hospital and the lack of addequate schools in the southern suburbs. They are building more and more homes in the southern areas without adding more schools. I think the govenment an the advertiser have done an outstanding job of hiding the real outrages of the govenment behind this farse.
We al thought the advertiser was against Mike Rann because of the “sex Scandles” that have poped up over the last few months but I se now that it was so they could get everyone thinking they way they needed them too.
The media Is the puppet of politics and this is more proof and you all just keep on swallowing it.
February 4th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
To Mathew,
I can see your point very clearly but I think this, the sex scandal, the game rating issue and the woes of Treasurer Kev (and others) have made a lot of otherwise complacent people wake up and think hard about the Government that currently sits in North Terrace. Of importance also are the numbers that are now seeing that there is no Left-Right paradigm (to quote Alex Jones).
Defeating the Federal Internet Censorship will not be easy at all and it is my belief that SA was a test case, as many other western countries have similar plans.
We must remember that this agenda is like a hydra. There are many battles being fought simultaneously. We fought against the rainwater tax that the Rann Government was planning to impose across the Fleurieu and Hills Catchment area. That was a victory too. Most South Australians are still unaware that not only was the plan well established with a start date of March 2009, or that there was a dedicated website, amount per kL (9c) a formula for catchment and their satellite photos had been done to sus out the whole area. They got caught out and had to back down saying it ‘was only an idea’.
I for one have not lost sight of the big picture and I have been able to accurately predict the behaviour of the Rann Government for it’s entire last term from the super-schools to the water in the Goolwa Channel. They are predictable as are their masters. I also think there is more to the sex scandal than we have been told. You mentioned Monica - these are the lines I am thinking along, even if she did not realise the role she was playing, and regardless of whether it was just flirty or went further - it doesn’t really matter, enough contact was made to be used later down the track when his usefulness was at an end. Now that we are being globally governed, we will see that more and more politicians and senior public servants will leave office under some cloud of suspicion, scandal or shame - so the door for them will be firmly shut and they too will be powerless to retaliate. This seems to be the international way.
Notwithstanding, I remain more hopeful than ever that the truth will prevail and the uprising will be peaceful.