{"id":1409,"date":"2010-09-07T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2010-09-07T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:39:34","slug":"our-next-online-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/09\/our-next-online-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Next Online Battle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the online community in Australia is cautiously celebrating the “near death” – (presuming all political parties vote as they have indicated previously) – of the ridiculous proposal for mandatory internet filtering in Australia, it seems we need to ready ourselves for the next fight.<\/p>\n

Data retention.<\/p>\n

Throughout the filtering debate, those in power – (which is an interesting concept right now, given Australia’s currently hung parliament) – have been at pains to suggest that the internet is not a special case<\/a>, and should be treated no differently to other forms of media, such as newspapers, television, and radio.<\/p>\n

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AFP Pressuring Government on Data Retention<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

The quote of most concern to me is as follows:<\/p>\n

“”It is important that we have the ability to retain the data,” Gaughan told reporters in Sydney today. “We can obtain intercepts … on pretty much everything. We don’t want to see what people are watching on TV, we want to see what people are looking at on the internet.””<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So once again, the internet appears to have been elevated to the status of “special case” – but which is it really? Will the real internet please stand up and make itself known? Haven’t we been told for months that it is not special?<\/p>\n

Roll up your sleeves people – the next fight begins right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the online community in Australia is cautiously celebrating the “near death” – (presuming all political parties vote as they have indicated previously) – of the ridiculous proposal for mandatory internet filtering in Australia, it seems we need to ready ourselves for the next fight. Data retention. Throughout the filtering debate, those in power – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[404,413,534],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-openinternet","tag-ozlog","tag-thenextfightbegins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}