I suppose there are lots of ways to stay in touch with what’s going on politically via the internet and stay true to your own beliefs. I mean I for one don’t really care about what’s going on, mostly because it’s all about the parties making them selves look good (and frankly that gets old after a while especially when they’re not doing a very good job) but I know there are ways to involve myself if I chose to do so. For example I’ve signed and e-petition a while back, it was to do with the rising cost of licenses.
It was easy to do and I had it sent to me via an e-mail. I know this particular e-petition raised a lot of support and got a lot of people involved. There are sites were you can create your own e-petition and even seek out one’s to sign. All in all while it may not always work it at least allows people to feel like they’re contributing and having a personal say in what’s going on. It’s a step up from simply allowing our local member decide for us.
Another interesting topic is ‘Clean Feed’; basically the government wants to censor what we can look at on the internet. It’s a good idea concerning child pornography and other evil things floating around; I just worry about where they’ll stop. In the end who’s going to decide what we can and can’t view? I’ve already taken a look on Google and the first three hits I got where “No Clean Feed In Australia!” So while it’s a good idea in theory, especially when it’s out to stop nasty things from floating through the net, it’s a bit intrusive and, no matter how you look at it, it restricts our ability to surf the net as we please.
Plus when they black list something we don’t even know about it because it’s ‘classified’. So, in theory, I could be on my way to check up the timetable for an upcoming tournament. But if the site had been vandalised and had material that should be ‘censored’ attached to it, then it could be blacklisted and I wouldn’t be able to access the site – and truthfully that would just make me grumpy.
So unless they stick to just censoring child pornography and other evil notions then I don’t really want a bar of it.
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