Week nine - Respose to content

POLITICS


- Sign an e-petition


I chose to sign a petition that will help endangered grizzly bears. I love animals and it makes me very sad when ever i hear a specie is threatened. 


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/183/454/156/

- Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/johnbeattie/2011/09/the_rugby_world_cup_needs_some.html#postcomment

I wanted to post a comment on this page, i made an account and everything, but the comment button wold not work!! Annoying! At least i tried. 

- What is Barack Obama up to today?

Today (Friday 30) he spoke in Virginia about why they have to pass the American Jobs Act. 

I got this information from his Twitter page. 

http://twitter.com/#!/BARACKOBAMA

- What are the Australian government's plans to censor the Internet (the so-called "clean feed")?

"The Australian Federal Labor Government has a "plan" (since late 2007) to mandate that ISPs block adults' access to Internet content on a secret blacklist, compiled by a government agency, that the Government deems unsuitable for adults."

http://libertus.net/censor/isp-blocking/au-govplan.html

- What place does censorship have in a democracy?

You have censorship  in a democracy to protect certain groups of people, like kids, from certain information. Like porn or bad pictures, violent movies etc. There are different types of democracy, so there are also different levels of censorship. All and all the censorship is there to protect you, not just to keep information away from you like it would in a dictatorship. 

- When will the NBN come to your place? What are the benefits?

"The NBN is a new, wholesale-only, open access high-speed broadband network that will deliver high-speed broadband to all Australians." (http://www.nbn.gov.au/about-the-nbn/what-is-the-nbn/)

I can't find information if it is coming to the Gold Coast any time soon.

- Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are. Send one a message.

- Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.

I'm not rally sure how to find information about this, I tried and i failed. Sorry!