More regarding freedom of intarwubs
Oct. 16th, 2008 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentric1. This is the man to complain to if you feel inclined to make a formal complaint. Interestingly, his media releases page includes nothing about the filtering plans. But back here he promised that there would be a way to opt out of the censorship system.
2. I put A more cogent rant up on my blog, in which I make conjecture about the consequences for academia. We have the world's leading expert on Potter fandom working in Australia, people. Wouldn't it be entertaining if she couldn't access her research material?
2. I put A more cogent rant up on my blog, in which I make conjecture about the consequences for academia. We have the world's leading expert on Potter fandom working in Australia, people. Wouldn't it be entertaining if she couldn't access her research material?
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Date: 2008-10-16 11:57 am (UTC)You're not gonna get any disagreement from me. I think it's unbelievably high-handed, arrogant and paternalistic, on top of the point that I just do not trust that this will be used only for the reasons they're talking about.
And the worst part of all this is that the other lot would be even worse, so we have no-one to do anything. I hope the Greens or someone will at least put up token resistance...
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Date: 2008-10-16 12:23 pm (UTC)