{"id":45,"date":"2008-08-05T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-08-05T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:42:55","slug":"double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2008\/08\/double-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only a matter of days ago, the Australian government joined the international chorus of condemnation in regards to the filtering of internet access for visiting media during the Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5m7l9a\">Conroy Welcomes ISP Filtering<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hypocritically, news is now \u201cfiltering\u201d through in regards to the details of the \u201cmandatory\u201d filtering systems, currently being trialled on behalf of that same Australian government.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6fju2z\">Net Censorship to Cost Users<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>As an Australian, I\u2019m pretty disgusted that they can point the finger at China &#8211; (and they do need fingers pointed at them) &#8211; and push on with this \u201cmandatory filtering\u201d program, and suggest that it will cost us, the users, to implement.<\/p>\n<p>Poor form chaps &#8211; we are watching. And we will take you to task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a matter of days ago, the Australian government joined the international chorus of condemnation in regards to the filtering of internet access for visiting media during the Beijing Olympics. Conroy Welcomes ISP Filtering Hypocritically, news is now \u201cfiltering\u201d through in regards to the details of the \u201cmandatory\u201d filtering systems, currently being trialled on behalf [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}