Friday, May 01, 2009
Shut up, otherwise you will harm our false harmony, by Marie-Eve Marineau
This kind of initiative, always initially built on good intentions, invariably ends up being transformed into monstrous Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and Suppression of Vice led forces islamoleftists ... We see Canada, where the commissions of human rights authorities are custodians of property and threaten democracy and our freedoms. We saw in Quebec with the astonishing document attached to the Bouchard-Taylor Report recommended that the media are at the service of Utopia Wellness and the Harmony total ... and everyone around, let's sing Kumbaya!
Australia will implement the mandatory Internet censorship
Australia added to China as a country which implements the mandatory censorship of the Internet, under a program developed by the federal government.
These revelations came out when the giant U.S. technology, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a coalition of advocacy groups for human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct to protect freedom of expression and privacy on the Internet.
The government said it will not allow Internet users have the option to withdraw from the proposed national internet filter.
The program was initially conceived as a way to fight against child pornography and adult content, but it could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy revealed the mandatory censorship to the Senate committee on estimates, while the Global Network Initiative, which brings together major corporations, organizations, human rights, academics and investors have asked technology companies to commit themselves to "protect freedom of expression and the right to privacy of their users."
Mr. Conroy said that tests should be made, but "we are talking about mandatory blocking, where possible, of illegal content."
The proposal for "Net Nanny" was originally offered to Australians who wanted uncensored access to the Web can contact their ISP to be excluded from this service.
Human Rights Watch has condemned internet censorship, and argued the U.S. Senate that "there is a real danger of a Virtual Curtain dividing the internet, just as the Iron Curtain had done during the Cold War because some governments fear the potential of the Internet, and want to control it. "
Groups including the System Administrators Guild of Australia and Electronic Frontiers Australia have attacked the proposal, saying it unfairly restrict Australians' access to the Web, it would slow the speed of the Internet and increase the price of access to Internet.
Colin Jacob, a board member of EFA, said the filter had little effect on illegal content on the Internet, including child pornography, because it would not cover file-sharing networks.
"If the government clearly announced that it intends to target only pornography, it would be a whole other debate," he said.
The initiative of technology companies, which follows criticism that companies were working to censorship of the Internet in countries such as China, requires them to narrowly interpret requests for information or censorship government and to fight for their collaboration reduce to a minimum.
The initiative provides a systematic approach to "work together to resist efforts by governments that seek to mobilize companies in acts of censorship and surveillance that violate international standards", said participants.
In a statement, co-founder and president of Yahoo, Jerry Yang welcomed the new code of conduct.
"These principles provide a valuable roadmap for companies like Yahoo operating in markets where freedom of expression and privacy are unfairly restricted," he said.
"Yahoo was founded on the belief that promoting access to information can enrich people's lives, and the principles we unveil today reflect our determination that our actions match our values around the world" .
Yahoo has been propelled to the forefront the issue of online rights after the Californian company has helped Chinese police identify cyber dissidents whose supposed crime was expressing their views online.
China exercises strict control over the Internet, it blocks sites linked to Chinese dissidents, the outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong, the Tibetan government in exile and those with information about the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen.
A number of U.S. companies, including Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Yahoo, have been dragged before the U.S. Congress in recent years and accused of complicity in building the "Great Wall Chinese Firewall."
The Australian Christian Lobby, however, has hosted the program with satisfaction.
The Executive Director Jim Wallace said that such measures were necessary. "The need to prevent access to content and coarse child pornography must be placed above the desire of industry to see unrestricted access," said Wallace.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has published a list of 10 worst countries in the world for bloggers. The Internet culture is expanding in several countries in Asia and the Middle East, resulting in an aggressive crackdown by some governments. Three of these countries are members of Consel Human Rights of the United Nations, China, Cuba and Egypt.
"Bloggers are the vanguard of the information revolution and the number is growing," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. "But governments have got to turn the technology against bloggers by censorship, restrictions on Internet access and retrieval of personal information. When all else fails, the authorities simply throw a few bloggers in prison for intimidating the rest of the Internet community and force them into silence or self-censorship."
Here is the list of the worst predators of freedom of expression online:
1. Burma
2. Iran
3. Syria
4. Cuba
5. Saudi Arabia
6. Vietnam
7. Tunisia
8. China
9. Turkmenistan
10. Egypt
IRAN: A Nation Of Bloggers from ayrakus on Vimeo.
Labels: Freedom of expression, Marie-Êve Marineau, Religion and fanaticism
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today i learned that optus is joining this"trial" .monday i am changing my phone service provider.what else can i do to thwart this undemocratic process??
Never be silent along the "democratic" dictature. Never shut up, yell, cry, talk to everyone around.
Don't be a stupid piece of the rainbow utopia, which welcomes the people who still dreaming of singing Kumbaya, with their traditional costumes of year 800 A.D., with 56000 people of all around the world.
You're from Australia, and in your country, you got Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Tamouls, and between all this, there is you. You still exist. Don't be a shame of it. Be proud of it.
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Don't be a stupid piece of the rainbow utopia, which welcomes the people who still dreaming of singing Kumbaya, with their traditional costumes of year 800 A.D., with 56000 people of all around the world.
You're from Australia, and in your country, you got Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Tamouls, and between all this, there is you. You still exist. Don't be a shame of it. Be proud of it.
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