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By Robert Merkel on March 16, 2011
ABC News: A wide-ranging shake-up of the Classification Act could be on the cards if there is no agreement to change the rating system for computer games. Any change to the classification system needs unanimous support from the Commonwealth, states [...]
Posted in Art, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged censorship, classification, video games |
By Kim on September 28, 2010
We really must be in a new paradigm when some people on Twitter end up thinking Sophie Mirabella speaks truly and I find myself feeling some sympathy with Stephen Conroy. But that’s perhaps by the by. I think one of [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged censorship, filter, fiona patten, ideology, internet, liberation, Marcus Lockard, Mungo McCallum, Q&A, Qanda, sex, sexualisation, Sexuality, Sociology, Sophie Mirabella, stephen conroy |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 16, 2010
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Blogging, Ethics, Government, History, Life, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ALP, biopolitics, Bob Carr, Capitalism, censorship, civil liberties, efa, electronic frontiers australia, expertise, Francis Fukuyama, freedom, governance, governmentality, ideology, internet filter, labor party, labourism, left, mark latham, michel foucault, neo-liberalism, New Labour, personal freedom, Policy, political communication, rationality, risk society, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, state labor governments, statism, stephen conroy, ulrich beck |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 5, 2010
The last couple of weeks have seen a fair bit of furore about those intertubes. Anna Bligh wrote to Facebook about the defacing of a couple of memorial sites for a child and a teenager who’d been murdered in Queensland. [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Ethics, Feminism, Life, Media, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Anna Bligh, censorship, child protection, children, Colin Jacobs, content, content management, electronic frontiers australia, elliott fletcher, facebook, freedom of speech, groups, high school, internet, Kevin Rudd, Media, moderation, moral panic, murder, nick xenophon, ombudsman, Ombudsperson, online, privacy, public debate, publishing, racism, sexism, social media, social networking, tribute sights, trinity bates |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 18, 2010
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Politics, The Web | Tagged censorship, China, Crikey, filtering, google, implementation, internet, internet filtering, isps, Jason Whittaker, nocleanfeed, Rudd government, stephen conroy, web |
By Brian on November 3, 2009
The World Today yesterday ran a story today about the CSIRO blocking a paper that had been accepted for publication by the journal New Political Economy after being internationally peer-reviewed. The had been submitted by Dr Clive Spash, a CSIRO [...]
Posted in Climate change, Policy, Science | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, censorship, cprs, CSIRO |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 22, 2009
Australia Post, which has been one of the many distributors for the excellent series of orange Popular Penguins, last week decreed that three titles could not be sold through their outlets – Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged Australia Post, banned books, Books, Writers & Writing, censorship, Delta of Venus, History of Sexuality, Jessica Au, Lolita, Meanjin, michel foucault, Popular Penguins, Spike, Vladimir Nabokov, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 19, 2008
There are a couple of very interesting contributions today about the Obama experience online and where it goes to from here – from my QUT colleagues Axel Bruns at Gatewatching and Barry Saunders at ABC Opinion. Saunders also has some [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Elections, Foreign Elections, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged barack obama, censorship, clean feed, internet, Kevin Rudd, online politics, Politics, social networks, Sociology, stephen conroy, web 2.0 |
By tigtog on October 24, 2008
I sometimes think that if it weren’t for the Senate Estimates Committees we would hardly know anything about our government at all in this country that didn’t come from a press release or a well-timed leak, given that Question Time [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Environment, Government, Markets, Media, Parenting, The Web, Water | Tagged Australian Senate, bank deposits guarantee, censorship, economic stimulus plan, internet filtering, irrigation, Murray-Darling, nocleanfeed, overblocking, senate estimates committee, Senator Conroy, Senator Ludlam, underblocking |
By Robert Merkel on September 13, 2008
From what I’ve heard, the reverence that Thais feel for their monarch is genuine and heartfelt in the vast majority of cases. But it’s also protected by a draconian law of lese majeste; as the Wikipedia explains, the crime of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing | Tagged censorship, free speech, lese majeste, thailand |
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