New comm tech week 6

-E-Petition, Heavy vehicle fatigue management system: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/petitions/e-petitions
-Professional blogger: My response- "obsession about body image is never healthy, i've known a few people who IMO place too high a value on body image, but not known anyone with a self inflicted eating disorder that i knew about. Happy Friday all." Blog link: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/blog/citykat

-What Obama was doing today: watching basketball.-Message to Obama:

Freedom on the internet, is it really important? @BarackObama
— Daniel Tomlinson (@DanielTomlinsan) August 30, 2013

- The government's clean feed plans were thusly: Minister Conroy has announced that he will introduce “mandatory ISP-level filtering of Refused Classification (RC) –rated content.”

• The filter will be based on URL filtering of a blacklist of between 1,000 and 10,000 URLs.
• The list of URLs will be based on the current ACMA blacklist, and will be supplemented by lists from international organisations (probably IWF).
• RC computer games will be excluded from mandatory filtering until the completion of the R18+ review.
• Additional funding will be available to encourage ISPs to offer voluntary filtering systems.

Reference: http://nocleanfeed.com/learn.html

- What place does censorship have in a democracy? In reality censorship has a minimal place in a democracy. This is down to a multitude of reasons, not the least of which being the impossible task of censoring every harmful thing on the internet. Freedom of choice, freedom of information and freedom of speech are some of our key values in a democracy but the whole idea of censorship goes against every one of these values.

"In its 2007 election manifesto, the Australian Labor Party signalled that if elected it intended 

to introduce legislation that would require ISPs to offer a ‘clean feed’ internet service to all 

venues accessible by children, including homes, schools and libraries. The aim of the policy 

was to protect children from seeking out or inadvertently coming across content prohibited by 

the Australian Media and Communication Authority (ACMA) (that is, material that has been 

or would likely be denied classification for release in Australia). The clean feed would be 

achieved via the issuing of take-down notices to sites located on Australian servers, and the 

establishment of an ISP-level filter that would block access to a blacklist of overseas sites 

featuring, among other things, child pornography and extreme violence (Labor’s Plan for 

Cybersafety, 2007)." Reference: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/submissions/20100316_11.34.55/114-Main%20submission_McLelland.pdf

-When will the NBN get to my place? At this stage I don't know but this is the response the NBN website provides me with: "Area information-

The NBN is coming to your place; however construction hasn't commenced in your area as yet. By the end of the year we will have commenced construction of the NBN on over 950,000 premises."

The purported benefits of the NBN are super fast download speeds and a much more stable and fast connection to the internet. However this is only vaguely the truth as depending on the number of houses in the street, internet speed can vary greatly. Lots of houses=super slow internet, minimal houses=wicked fast internet.

-My local member: Peter Dowling.
-My state member: Campbell Newman. My message to Campbell Newman: What's your view on internet censorship Mr. Premier?
-My federal member: Kevin Rudd.

-Peter Dowling: The last time Peter Dowling spoke in parliament was on August 7th 2013 and it was not for good reasons. Sexting. Tutt tutt.

-I emailed Mr Dowling's office saying: "Dear Mr. Dowling, can you please elaborate on your future plans for parliament after your sexting debacle in the last month? Kind regards, Dan."


That's all folks, thanks for reading my psycho-babble!

-Dan.