By Lord Scarab, on August 17th, 2010 |
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Almost 3 weeks ago I contacted my local MP, a liberal, on her position in regards to the Internet filter and also the NBN. Well I finally got a full reply… well sort of *sigh*
It would appear the Lib’s think they are getting hammered hard on the NBN seeing as they just dropped a form letter in
Continue reading: The Liberal NBN response
By Lord Scarab, on August 16th, 2010 |
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Oh I was afraid of this… [Apps and games to face censor, says ALP ]
Well here we go again. Another insane policy undoubtedly ‘encouraged’ and ‘highly endorsed’ by the right wing of the ALP.
The issue here, as skepdad pointed out on his blog post on the topic, is that mobile apps are not all made by big
Continue reading: More censor creep. Mobile apps under attack
By Lord Scarab, on August 12th, 2010 |
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In the post titled “The Internet, politics and insanity round-up” I wrote:
Conroy has stated that he will pursue the filter even tho it has no chances of passing and if he can’t he will pursue changes to the classification board and FORCE the filter through.
I am afraid the information that I had received from twitter was flawed.
Continue reading: I eat some humble pie
By Lord Scarab, on August 10th, 2010 |
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Well it has been a busy few weeks hasn’t it?
Malcolm Turnbull declared the Labor party’s insane plans of an internet filter dead with both the Liberals and the Greens stating they will block any Labor attempt to pass filter legislation in the senate. The liberals finally announced their internet policy, as bland as it was also Conroy, Smith
Continue reading: The Internet, politics and insanity round-up
By Lord Scarab, on July 26th, 2010 |
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Wikileaks appears to have done it again, only this time by several orders of magnitude.
Top secret War logs from the Afghanistan war have been released by the professional leak journalists at Wikileaks. Only this time they appear to have gone a slightly different direction than the last BIG leak. Wikileaks received a fair bit of criticism when the
Continue reading: Wikileaks furor: The changing media opinion