Lec 7 & Tutorial 7

Today's lecture focused on democracy and us as citizens participating in that democracy. It links back to our online democracy. We covered a little bit of the history of hackers and censorship and how governments are trying to stop what content we can see online. Definitely a power move to try and take what control they can of our online society. The card they used was that children will be saved from the bad things that can be seen on the Internet. I think it should be up to the parents to filter this if they choose to do so. Governments should not be able to tell us as citizens what we can and cant look at online. Companies are already tracking what we do online, like AT&T and the various internet service providers so cant we have just a little freedom in what we can do. Its only the first step to what will lead to total government control in how we live our lives via the internet. The internet is seen as a public space, but is it really? Maybe more like controlled space that we just don't know is the case.



I found somewhere to sign an epetition:
http://www.saveeumundi.org/2009/08/sign-the-e-petition-now
Its to prevent overhead transmission lines from going up in Eumundi.

I responded to Andrew Bolt, who blogs for the herald sun.
it was about his article Gillard must resign saying I agree with giving her the boot. 
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

I found a site that you can follow obama on an hourly basis.
http://www.americans-away-from-home.com/node/582
A post from 9:30 am says:President Obama and Vice President Biden get the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. (Not sure if its 100% recent and accurate)
Also he can be followed on twitter at: BarackObama@twitter

My federal rep is:
Federal Electorate: FADDEN
Member: Stuart ROBERT
Party: LNQ
found at: http://apps.aec.gov.au/eSearch/LocalitySearchResults.aspx?filter=Fadden&filterby=Electorate&divid=159

My local member for Southport is: Peter Lawlor who gave his last speech on:
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Insert (Speech by Hon.Peter Lawlor MEMBER FOR SOUTHPORT Hansard)