Last Thursday I prepared a presentation for Webjam 9. The aim was to keep the anti-filter message flowing. I figured it was an awesome forum to continue to promote it.
I prepared it as a video, rather than slides, because I wanted the pace of the slides to change as the presentation unfolded. It also allowed me to add a few other video snippets, and do it hands free given the 3 minute time limit.
So it made sense to add my voice over for the presentation and to upload it to the Internets, for others to see and use.
For more information, check out AWIA’s Keep Your Filter Off Our Internet.
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Haha! I love when people that had a go at Howard for scare tactics (which I am sure I heard you do on G’Day World in the good old days of that show, I apologies if you didn’t and thought his tactics where fine) now using Howard style scare tactics to push their agenda.
And by the way, many, many books are banned right now! Many are rated and there access is controlled today. Why have a go at the internet representation of these current laws, why not fight the original laws themselves? Why can’t my 8 year old go into a newsagency and buy any magazine he wants? Can’t I be trusted to control what he buys?
So, yeah, have a go at the speed loss, etc. Real issues but if you have an issue with Censorship, go the whole hog and defend books and Magazines, TV, etc,etc,etc because that is what the government is trying to bring to the net.
And the argument that it won’t be 100% successful is not a good one. We can’t stop 100% of the people from speeding so should be just abolish speed limits? We can’t stop 100% of the drugs coming in, so should we stop trying to catch any?
And surely the fact the government want to trail the system is a positive as it means they want to see if it can work before they they implement it?
Lastly, don’t get me wrong. I will be the first to opt-out of the opt-out portion of the filter but that doesn’t mean I don’t think the government is wrong for implementing with net medium what they have in other mediums! To not do so is hypercritical! Perhaps the bigger issue is that they let the “Net” get away with it for too long and now we expect it.