Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
A censorship regime in the form of a mandatory internet filter has been announced by the Rudd Government. It is to be implemented next year. The video---part of the Censordyne campaign---is by Danllc for GetUp:
Firstly, the potential is there because "illegal" or "unwanted" content is currently what is on the ACMA blacklist and what may be put on the blacklist in the future. he definition of what is illegal is dealt with under the Broadcasting Services Act by use of the terms "prohibited content" and "potential prohibited content". Prohibited content is that which has been classified RC (refused classification) or X 18+ by the Classification Board; whilst potential prohibited content is content that has not been classified by the Classification Board but that if it were, there is a substantial likelihood that it would be prohibited content.
Secondly, this movement for censorship is a campaign based on exaggerated claims, that has been run by ChildWise's Bernadette McMenamin, the Australian Family Association and the Australian Christian Lobby. They have a wide understanding of refused classification and potential prohibited content and they are opposed to an open internet. So no photos of naked bodies on the web or photos of teenage sexuality?
The Australian Christian Lobby, which has its base in the evangelical Pentecostal-type churches, is already calling for a review of the mandatory internet filter within three years to expand its scope beyond the ACMA blacklist. Managing director Jim Wallace issued a statement claiming the Enex report had "proven the technological principle [of filtering] can be extended to deal with other harmful X (sexually explicit material) and R-rated material (includes information about, or containing, drug use, nudity, sexual references, adult themes, horror themes, martial arts instruction, graphic images of injuries, medium or high level coarse language, sex education, health education and drug education) on the internet.
What the Australian Christian Lobby, which is a pro-life and anti-biotechnology group, wants blacklisted is content that is legal, but offensive to sections of the community defined by religious fundamentalists within the Christian movement. They work on the basis of moral panic and the politics of fear. They stand for < a href="http://www.rodneycroome.id.au/other_more?id=3068_0_2_0_M18">Christian governance grounded in the objective moral truths contained in the Scriptures, advocate an
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 4:42 PM | Permalink
Despite the claims of those who whip up a moral panic the chances of stumbling across child abuse material on the internet are minimal as it isn’t really distributed on web pages. Pedophiles use peer-to-peer software and none of the filters can deal with P2P. The filter will not work.
over recent years the base line of Australian law and policy has moved beyond a primary concern with ‘harm’ towards a greater emphasis on ‘offensiveness’. From another standpoint, recent policy has reflected a different and broader conception of ‘harm’, one that encompasses a concern for the physical (and psychic) well-being of participants in sexually explicit material, as well as a concern for the ‘social harm’ that may be caused by such material.
The talk of filters does tend to get the concerned talking about sexual content but I find sites that promote self harm and suicide amongst young people far more abhorrent.I would be happy for these types to be filtered away. Tits and bums are just that.
Despite the claims of those who whip up a moral panic the chances of stumbling across child abuse material on the internet are minimal as it isn’t really distributed on web pages. Pedophiles use peer-to-peer software and none of the filters can deal with P2P. The filter will not work.