{"id":1667,"date":"2010-01-27T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T05:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T05:26:59","slug":"australian-all-let-us-rejoice-while-our-internet-is-still-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/australian-all-let-us-rejoice-while-our-internet-is-still-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian all let us rejoice, while our internet is still free."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia_Day\">Australia Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of people wrote cracking posts reflecting on whether Senator Conroy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minister.dbcde.gov.au\/media\/speeches\/2009\/075\">proposed mandatory Internet filterin<\/a>g made them feel better about being Australian.<\/p>\n<p>Kay Smoljak, \u00a0\u00a0proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleverstarfish.com\/\">Clever Starfish<\/a> , is <a href=\"http:\/\/kay.smoljak.com\/index.php\/not-a-proud-aussie\/\">Not a proud Aussie<\/a> . Sue Hutley, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/blog\/\">Australian Library and Information Association<\/a> thinks about\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Permanent Link: The internet and being Aussie - on Australia Day\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/blog\/?p=146\">The internet and being Aussie &#8211; on Australia Day<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both posts contain many pointers about what you can do. Some ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetblackout.com.au\/\">Great Australian Blackout 25 &#8211; 29 Januar<\/a>y<\/li>\n<li>Read the Electronic Frontiers Association&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efa.org.au\/2010\/01\/25\/help\/\">10 things you can do to help<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Contact ALIA \u00a0(<a href=\"mailto:advocacy@alia.org.au\">advocacy@alia.org.au<\/a>)\u00a0to make a contribution to ALIA&#8217;s submission to the Minister<\/li>\n<li>Make a submission to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbcde.gov.au\/funding_and_programs\/cybersafety_plan\/transparency_measures\">Refused Classification materials review<\/a> by 12 February 2010<\/li>\n<li>Download ACMA&#8217;s \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybersmart.gov.au\/Libraries\/~\/media\/Files\/Cybersmart%20Libraries\/ACMA_CybersmartLibrariesGuide_A4.ashx\">Cybersmart guide for library staff<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Australia Day. A couple of people wrote cracking posts reflecting on whether Senator Conroy&#8217;s proposed mandatory Internet filtering made them feel better about being Australian. Kay Smoljak, \u00a0\u00a0proprietor of Clever Starfish , is Not a proud Aussie . Sue Hutley, from the Australian Library and Information Association thinks about\u00a0The internet and being Aussie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-qT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}