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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => News and Politics => Topic started by: brendan on February 06, 2009, 01:07:23 am
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25010682-5014239,00.html
Interesting comment:
I'd really hate to say this but these days the Labour party has become more and more like a Communist party...
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Interesting comment:
I'd really hate to say this but these days the Labour party has become more and more like a Communist party...
And funnily enough I think that is true.
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All bow down to Chairman Rudd.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhV2LjOZzY
"Our friends in Beijing are watching, anymore misbehaviour along those lines and you will be arrested."
What misbehaviour?
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im really starting to hate Kevin Rudd's policies now.............
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhV2LjOZzY
"Our friends in Beijing are watching, anymore misbehaviour along those lines and you will be arrested."
What misbehaviour?
hahaha, I remember watching that. I seriously lol'd when I first watched it.
though thinking back to it, the way he reacted was rather paranoid...
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The more I hear about the Internet Filter, the more dismal I become. A lot of its inner plans are not released to the public but the Government wants us to sit and wait quietly while they slowly gain control over one of our main sources of information.
They say that they are not like the Chinese Government or Big Brother in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or Kim Jong-Il of North Korea but this is how most of these governments started to gain control over their communication networks.
I fear for the future of this country, as "Freedom of Speech" is one of the most valued virtues of this nation.
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They say that they are not like the Chinese Government or Big Brother in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or Kim Jong-Il of North Korea but this is how most of these governments started to gain control over their communication networks.
Internet filtering is part of these countries' media censoring, though they didn't start with the Internet, they started with dictatorial rule.
It should be noted that Howard was doing something similar to this, except it wasn't involuntarily enforced onto the population. He offered filters to be installed on home computers [like parental control on foxtel] so to protect younglings from 'accidentally' visiting the wrong sites. However, it wasn't really a success as everyone chose their freedom. I am ashamed that Rudd decide to ignore the public response and simply invested more in the national filter, somehow thinking it is what the population wants.
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The more I hear about the Internet Filter, the more dismal I become. A lot of its inner plans are not released to the public but the Government wants us to sit and wait quietly while they slowly gain control over one of our main sources of information.
They say that they are not like the Chinese Government or Big Brother in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" or Kim Jong-Il of North Korea but this is how most of these governments started to gain control over their communication networks.
I fear for the future of this country, as "Freedom of Speech" is one of the most valued virtues of this nation.
There is no explicit constitutional right to free speech in Australia*.
* but I believe there is some common law that protects political free speech.