Tag: free speech
News: The Great Firewall of Australia
by otaking on Dec.18, 2009, under News
From http://www.flickr.com/photos/kogakure/546535952/
From boingboing, from Cory Doctorow:
Electronic Frontiers Australia have posted their authoritative condemnation of the Australian government’s plan to impose mandatory, national filtering on the Australian Internet (like the filters used in Iran, Syria, China, and other repressive regimes). EFA points out that this national censorship plan will do little to curb child pornography and crime (because people who seek out that sort of thing can always get around filters), but it will give unaccountable government bureaucrats the power to secretly and arbitrarily hide information from Australians.
LikeOpen Forum: Free as Speech, Free as Beer
by otaking on Jul.26, 2009, under Open Forum
The title alludes to the two types of ‘free’ that is used in the open source software debate, Gratis (free beer) vs. Libre (free speech).
In the past week or so I’ve been finding myself mixed up in this debate in one way or another. From the brand new trolls on my site thanks to my latest Manifesto (hi trolls!) to a heated plurk debate about AP trying to DRM their news items, everyone has an opinion on this subject.
