Australia on RWB anti-freedom of speech list
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- “Australia as a WHOLE is now considered an ‘Internet Enemy’,” emails p2pnet regular Andrew aka Comeonecomcast from over in the land of Oz.
“Thank you Senator Conroy SO MUCH /sarcasm”, he says.
How come?
Reporters Without Borders is now listing Australia as one of the worst violators of freedom of online expression.
Together with Australia on the RWB freedom violators list are Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, and Vietnam.
Acting in the government’s name is Stephen Conroy (right), and, “Around the world, servants of the people, politicians, continue to completely ignore the wishes of those who put them into power in the first place”, said p2pnet recently, going on:
“In Australia one of the manifestations of this is the way communications minister Stephen Conroy is trying to ride his version of Communist China’s Iron Curtain censorship laws into Australian statute books.
“But, sadly for him, he’s just been caught with his trousers around his ankles.
“The man in charge of the country’s Labour government, he’s been censoring his own website, says news.com.au.”
Some countries on the RYWB list “are determined to use any means necessary to prevent their citizens from having access to the Internet”, it says, adding among those “under surveillance” are several democracies, including Australia, “because of the upcoming implementation of a highly developed Internet filtering system”.
Australians will no doubt be delighted to see their country thus elevated.
Stay tuned.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
worst violators – Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0, March 12, 2010
p2pnet – Stephen ‘Filter’ Conroy filters filter post, February 26, 2010
news.com.au – Conroy’s website removes references to filter, February 25, a 2010
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March 12th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Leaked Documents Show UK Web Censorship Proposal Written By Record Labels
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100311/1054028522.shtml
March 12th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
This hurts so much. Bloody Conroy.
March 12th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
“Leaked Documents Show UK Web Censorship Proposal Written By Record Labels”
Extreme capitalism is the same as communism. In both cases we lose our freedom.
In communism the government control everything. In extreme capitalism few or may be even only one company control all.
We have to destroy the few big huge major corporations right now before it is too late starting with the banks and the entertainment companies.
The best way would be to organize a world wide massive boycott against the few dozen rogue companies who are destroying or societies and our democracies.
If we fail to do this them we will have a big nasty war of corporations vs the people and it will be brutal an deadly.
The people will prevail though.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:30 am
^
Captialism is an economic system based on the Private, ownership of ‘Capital’
“In communism the government control everything. In extreme capitalism few or may be even only one company control all.”
Me thinks not (your right about the communist part)
“Its our Democracy, We Bought it, We Paid for it, and Were going to keep it” Statement by PR Firm Murray Hill after the US Supreme Court Ruled, Corporations have the right to free speech
Oh, and that Corporation wants a seat in that US Congress http://www.p2pnet.net/story/34671
Lets hope your statement says true, or we can watch Corporations go down in Flames heh
March 13th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Lets hope your statement stays true Readers Write*