Archives for: February 2010

Youtube Video - Think Again about Censorship with Christopher Hitchens

by John

Good video on youtube which illustrates some of the problems with censorship. [video:youtube:2dtzxKei4l0] more »

Contacting your local government representative

by John

If you want to contact your local representative but are unsure on what electoral area you are in, you can use the following website http://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/apps/news/?year=2010 Just type your suburb in and click search. The page then shows w… more »

The first rule of censorship, don't talk about censorship. Conroy puts this into practice on his own website.

by John

Stephen Conroy has been caught out yet again. This time its not suspicious ski trip deals with TV executives, its censorship of his own website. A user on Whirlpool Forums has stumbled across some code on http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/ which is visi… more »

Other issues with Internet Filtering

by John

Since the government seems to want to continue with its filtering system, I feel the need to discuss some other issues with the system that I have not seen much discussion on.The first one is something @newtonmark tweeted about. Anonymous was success… more »

Fear in kids

by John

A few days ago a young girl was taken from her family home and killed. It is terrible for the girl and family, but I call for restraint from other parents. I saw an article where a mother who lives near by is making one of her teenage sons sleep next… more »

Bathroom Update

by John

Its been a long time since my last post about the bathroom and it seems like not much has happened. I have been busy on other areas of the house. The bathroom kinda got to a stage where it was usable so I moved onto different areas which were more impo… more »

R18+ Movies

by John

A few weeks ago people may remember a very stupid law came in requiring all R18+ movies to be in their own section to apparently protect kids from the images on the covers. I was in a video store the last week and saw the stupidity in action. Fig… more »