Posts tagged Australia
Periodical Political Post *32
Aug 7th
- 2 teens murdered, 12 injured in Tel Aviv shooting at gay youth meeting
- Gay couples protest Australian gay marriage ban with mock weddings
- Aussie MP attacks plans to allow gay adoption, says homosexuality isn’t normal
- Cambodia relocates HIV families to AIDS Ghettos lacking clean water
- Boy dies after being shot in the back by police, Amnesty demands investigation
- UK wants to set thousands of families under 24/7 surveillance
- Football clubs take a stand for gay pride in Sweden
- Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz will mehr & schärfere Netzzensur
- Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll – CDU will Zensur ebenfalls ausweiten
- SPD-Spitzenkandidat meint, das Grundgesetz ist nicht so wichtig
- Auch Grüne wollen zensieren: Kommentar des Bremer Fraktionsvorsitzenden
- SPD will Grundrechte zu Gunsten von Urheberrechten schwächen
- CDU weiß seit 13 Jahren von Sicherheitsproblem in Atommülllager
Periodical Political Post *31
Jul 24th
- Children as young as 10 on public sex offender lists in the USA
- France, New Zealand, Australia want “3-Strikes-Law” against file sharers
- New Zealand introduces Internet censorship, sparks outrage
- UK will subject everyone who works with kids to multiple, repeated police-checks
- Change we can believe in: Obama puts *another* lobbyist into a crucial position
- Italian secret Internet censorship list leaked, contains mostly legal Gay porn
Periodical Political Post *28
Jun 26th
- Pirate Party enters first national parliament, German Social Democrat switches
- Pedo hysteria: Parents banned from taking pictures of their own children at sports day
- Gay "exorcism" performed on teenage boy by fundamentalist Christians
- US Department of Defense classes protests as "low-level terrorism"
- UK police use violence as punishment for observers who ask them to identify themselves
- Waterboarding used on marijuana suspects, says London metropolitan police officer
- UK Police medics have an obviously strange view on what their job is – and what not
- Great Firewall of Australia to block video games unsuitable for people under 15
- Tennesee man charged in "Virtual Pornography" case for faked photos
- ASCAP wants to be paid when your phone rings in public because of copyright
Fun Fact: Terror suspects not allowed to fly in the US – but to buy guns
- Erster Pirat im Bundestag! Jörg Tauss wechselt von der SPD zur Piratenpartei
- Will die CDU die Bankenrettung mit Massenobdachlosigkeit finanzieren?
- “Jugendminister” der CDU in NRW fordert Altersgrenzen für Websites
- BND hat Amerikanern im Irakkrieg nachweislich Bombenziele geliefert
- Katastrophe Piviatisierung: Stromkonzerne beriechern sich auf Kosten der Kunden
Midsummer
Jun 19th
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Photos by Kiddiepunk
Periodical Political Post *24
May 29th
- Californian Supreme Court says it was OK to ban same sex marriage
- "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says Catholic archbishop
- Aussie government admits less than a third of censorship list related to underage images
- Obama wants to keep photos of US soldiers raping women and kids secret
- Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial
- FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot to cause a bit of panic
- Bush didn’t invade Iraq for the Oil – but because God told him
- English schoolkids go on strike until CCTVs are removed from classes
- EU sues Sweden because they didn’t make a data retention law
- Die FDP ist immerhin ehrlich: “Wir wollen keine gerechte Gesellschaft”
- Danke liebe Regierung: Staat baut in Deutschland illegal Atom-Endlager
- AK Zensur beweist: Netzzenszur überflüssing, Seiten lassen sich einfach löschen
- CDU-Kulturstaatsminister fordert Zensur auch bei Urheberrechtsverletzungen
- Jetzt offiziell: Deutschland in Sachen Zensur schlimmer als China
- Jugendschutz = politische Zensur? Jugenschutzfilter sperrt Zeitungen und Parteiseiten
- Hausdurchsungen gibt es jetzt schon wegen einer MP3 im Wert von € 1,29
- BKA lügt mal wieder, diesmal zu den Inhalten der Zensurlisten
- “Demokratie” in italien: Berlusconi will das "nutzlose" Parlament entmachten
- Schweden bestes Land im EU-Sozialranking, Deutschland auf Platz 19 (von 27)
Blog Spotlight *3
May 17th
The first guy who got his journal at milkblogs was Jake. He is quite an interesting person with some strange habits for you to discover. Sadly he’s too lazy to think of a few words about his blog so you have to check it out for yourself to see if you care enough to follow him through the (maybe not so?) tough life of a bisexual Aussie boy. Just don’t ask about his hair straightener, it’s a weak spot. So, enter Jake’s Home if you dare.
You want your blog featured here? Send us your link and tell our readers in a few sentences what’s your blog about and why it’s special.
Periodical Political Post *21
May 8th
- The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support torture
- Australian government rejects civil union for Gays and Lesbians
- Greek court ruled that two gay marriages performed in Greece so far are invalid
- US state Maine passes bill to allow Same Sex Marriage
- US army tried to spread Christianity in Afghanistan. Crusade anyone?
- London cops catch and search “terrorist” every three (!) minutes
- Police in Texas accused of at least 150 highway robberies
- EU kills "3-strikes" Internet rule, affirms Internet is a fundamental right
- 911 police officer refuses to help girl who calls about dying father because she said “Fuck”
- Zugriff der USA auf Fingerabdrücke und DNA von Deutschen geplant
- Petition gegen Internetzensur hat bereits über 60.000 Unterstützer!
- Von der Leyen findet Gegner von Zensur “unzivilisiert”, Guttenberg ist sowieso ein heuchlerischer Arsch
- SPD will Internetzensur auf Jugendpornos und Filesharing ausweiten
- Österreich will auch das Netz zensieren, mit den gleichen Lügen wie in Deutschland
- Politik, Populismus und Kinderporno – schöner Artikel zur Internetzensur
- Schwulen- & Lesbenverband warnt vor Wahl von CDU und FDP
- Bundespolizisten wollen auch Spaß, einer hat am 1. Mai fröhlich mitrandaliert
- Kinderpornos sind für Anfänger, Live Search zensiert den Suchbegriff “Strumpfhose”
God Land
Mar 29th
Teaser trailer of Kiddiepunk’s upcoming feature God Land. I’m frickin excited about this film.
In Search of the Divine
Mar 26th
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[Photos by Kiddiepunk]
Periodical Political Post *15
Mar 4th
- Gay Asian Oscar viewers outraged at telecast censorship by Murdoch
- FBI and politicos renew push for Internet Provider data retention laws
- Australian web censorship plan heads towards a dead end
- French minister of culture wants to filter internet at public wifi hotspots
- Swedish parliament passes a new controversial copyright bill
- Trial against the Pirate Bay ended, prosecutor called for jailtime
- How Pirates say ‘Thank You’
- UPDATE: Zensurlisten in Deutschland wahrscheinlich vorerst vom Tisch!
- Männerschwarm Verlag wegen Verdachts auf Verbreitung von Kinderpornographie durchsucht
- Hausdurchsuchung wegen eines Links auf einen Link auf einen Link zu Netzzensruliste. Kein Witz…
- Bundesverfassungsgerichtet rettet (schon wieder)
die Weltdas Land – Wahlcomputer vorerst verboten. Yes! - Linkspartei erfährt durch Anfragen im Bundestag erschreckende Details zu Einsätzen der Bundeswehr im Innern
- Petition für bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen 53.000 mal unterzeichnet, danke an alle Mitzeichner!
- Polizist erpresst Internet-User wegen angeblichen Konsums von Kinderpornographie
- Jugendschutz.net zensiert Spiele-Portale im Intrernet wegen Berichterstattung über Action-Spiele
The God Land
Jan 21st
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Photos from the film The God Land by Aspen Michael Taylor.
You’ll find more stunning art at his blog and website.
Thanks to Dennis Cooper for the hint!
The Censored Net
Jan 7th
Wikileaks has released the secret Internet censorship list for Denmark. The list contains 3863 sites blocked by Danish ISPs participating in Denmark’s censorship scheme as of February 2008. Danish ISPs "volunteer" to censor their users rather than face legislation and the top three ISPs are participants. The system can be used to censor anything, but is meant to be for child pornography sites found by the Danish police and the Danish "Save the Children" group. The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a secret censorship system. List like this also are in use in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Thailand and are planned for several other countries including Germany.
If you (dare to) click through the list you will realize that nearly all of the banned sites are legal, only a ridiculous small number of them are actually showing pictures which could be considered as child pornography. The Finnish list is pretty much the same as in Denmark and someone did the work of checking all sites for their actual content. Here are the results:
|
TYPE OF SITE |
LEGALITY |
NUMBER ( RATIO) |
|
completely irrelevant |
LEGAL |
9 (<1%) |
|
nothing to do with child porn |
LEGAL |
879 (84%) |
|
legal/clothed child models |
LEGAL |
46 (4-5%) |
|
small portion of questionable content |
HARD TO DEFINE |
28 (2-3%) |
|
contains child pornography |
ILLIEGAL |
9 (<1%) |
|
site is dead or not reachable |
X |
76 (7-8%) |
So: Less than 1% (!) of the sites on the list are containing child porn while nearly 25% are legal gay sites! And that’s where it gets dangerous: nobody can control the content of these censor list. Today there are banning legal gay sites, tomorrow they might ban sites of uncomfortable political groups (not so unrealistic since countries like Australia and New Zealand are already using anti-terror laws to spy on anti-war protestors and animal right groups).
[Found at DeviantArt]
German: Einen Deutschen Artikel zum Thema gibt’s bei Schutzalter, der Gründer von Wikileaks hat außerdem auf dem 25C3 einen Vortrag gehalten den man hoffentlich bald runterladen kann. Ich poste den Link in den Kommentaren sobald das Video online ist.
Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship. – German Basic Law, Article 5
