No censorship, say 90% of Aussies: report
Virtually none, says a new survey from ISP Whirlpool, conducted between December 31, 2008, and February 1 this year.
Governments and companies still believe they can continually fly in the faces of the people who put them into power and who keep them in business, and get away with it.
But that was in the good old days before the Net gave us the ability to communicate with each other almost instantly, no matter what time of day, or where we are.
Thanks to its policy of suing customers instead of wooing them, the corporate music industry is now on its last legs.
And politicians such as Australian Labour leader Kevin Rudd, who wants government-controlled online censorship complete with a blacklist’ of sites, are learning they answer to the people, not the other way around.
“This is an opportunity to drive a nail into the coffin of internet censorship, so we’re looking for creative ideas to produce a TV ad that will turn up the heat on our campaign to Save the Net,” says Australian acitivist group GetUp.
“Script ideas, images, music, video content or just a good pun – your brainwave could end up on national TV!
“We’ll turn the best ideas into a TV advertising campaign ready to hit the airwaves in April. Submit your ideas!”
The campaign should generate plenty of support.
When people in the Whirlpool survey — verified a total of 19,763 times — were asked how the issue of internet filtering affected their voting at the last Australian federal election, only 2% of Labor voters supported it, says the report.
And almost two thirds of Labor voters hadn’t even realised a filtering policy was being proposed, it says.
On top of that, almost 90% of respondents wouldn’t use the government’s proposed optional filter component, “a staggering result,” says the survey.
Meanwhile, Wikileaks.org, which published the blacklist, has been offline since yesterday duye, no doubt, to being swamped for requests.
blacklist’ of sites – Website blacklist leaked on internet, Sydney Morning Herald, March 19, 2009
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March 21st, 2009 at 4:50 pm
SO i wonder did hte govts of our world get invaded by aliens who are trying to control us LOL
it certainly seems more plausable then a politician doing what 90% DONT WANT YOU TO DO.
haha i have buds in australia and i’ll say this. A lot more is planned then they realize.
AND it will as i said ONLY get worse UNTIL they capitulate to WE THE PEOPLE.
YOU CANNOT DEFEAT PEOPLE.
March 21st, 2009 at 5:12 pm
LOL.
just lol.
March 21st, 2009 at 7:04 pm
A very sad day for democracy and Australia. I am in Australia at the moment and have tried to access Wikileaks, which I was able to access two days ago. The same address returns:
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_6_Aug_2008
Clearly it has been blacklisted by the Australian government censorship agency.
Had the government been open about its censored sites, publicity surrounding Wikileaks and the banning of this site would never have occurred. I certainly would not have given this issue a thought, being just another trusting Aussie.
No doubt my DNS will be recorded by our invisible watchers because I write this.
March 21st, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Actually this is no laughing matter. Freedom of information is at stake and people’s freedom is eroded by this act of the Australian government. It is more serious than the global recession and needs to be brought to the forefront of public awareness.
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:24 am
As an Australian, i will ensure that nobody blocks what i can do on the Internet.
If i want to look at wikileaks, i will.
I knew voting in Kevin Dudd was a bad idea…his a communist prick.