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By Robert Merkel on September 28, 2011
Age article here.. While the specifics of the legalities are different, my view remains the same as in 2010: Bolt is a an ugly blot on the media landscape, but that doesn’t mean that anything he wrote in those articles [...]
Posted in Law, Race | Tagged andrew bolt, Culture Wars, freedom of speech, Racial Discrimination Act |
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 Idiot/Savant on March 19, 2009
WikiLeaks is a public-interest website which makes leaked material freely available on the internet. In the past it has revealed information on psychological torture at Guantanamo Bay, a Pentagon analysis showing it is losing the war in Afghanistan, and insider [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Law, Politics, The Web | Tagged Asshattery, authoritarian, freedom of speech, politics & govt, Wikileaks |
By Robert Merkel on October 6, 2008
Today’s Crikey asks a rather rude question: An Australian citizen currently languishes in jail in a foreign country, having been seized from an aircraft on the basis of an arrest warrant issued in a third country. The crime alleged to [...]
Posted in Crime, Europe, The Web | Tagged frederick toben, freedom of speech |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008
I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 |
By Kim on August 24, 2008
Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down: Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.
Posted in Blogging, Media, Politics | Tagged balance, Blogging, Christian Kerr, free speech, freedom of speech, journalism ethics, journalists and bloggers, journos v. bloggers, mainstream media, News Limited political columnists, political journalism, political punditry, Possum Comitatus, psephological blogging, The Australian |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2008
Yep, Christian Kerr is talking about us. Among others. Guess what, we’re smug, ill informed, prone to conspiracy theories, full of hatred for the noble profession of journalism, divorced from the real world, an echo chamber, too academic, etc, etc. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Media | Tagged balance, Blogging, Christian Kerr, free speech, freedom of speech, journalism ethics, journalists and bloggers, journos v. bloggers, mainstream media, News Limited political columnists, political journalism, political punditry, The Australian |
By Kim on August 11, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/stephanie-rice-3.JPG" align=left There was some interesting discussion here at LP recently on this thread about the right to free speech, which I think took far too narrowly American and thus falsely universal a view. In the common law tradition [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Europe, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, International, Law, Life, Media, Photography, Policy, Sociology, Sport, The Web, Women | Tagged beijing olympics, bill of rights, celebrity news, Eamon Sullivan, facebook, freedom of speech, invasion of privacy, journalism ethics, jurisprudence, Max Mosley, media ethics, olympic gold, press freedom, Privacy Act, Reba Meagher, Right to Know Coalition, right to privacy, Stephanie Rice, stephanie rice facebook, Stephanie Rice facebook photos, tabloid press |
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