Barak obama on today the 21st of september will visit CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman on as part of a media blitz to promote his health care message to Americans.
http://hometownhollywood.com/2009/09/16/president-barack-obama-late-show-with-david-letterman-september-21-guest-appearance/
The local member for thw tweed shire is
State Member for Tweed - Geoff Provest MPThe state members for NSW are found at this web site
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3ListCurrentLAMembers
Members of federal parliament
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/mi-elctr.asp
From the lectures and readings i found a number of interesting ideas based on the idea of democracy. Democracy can be hard to define. We live in a world of representative democracy which has both negatives and positives. We live in a world that now has stronger political parties and there is more ability for free speech then the past. Democracy and freedom on speech on the internet is an interesting concept. As anyone can make a website, it has an amazing ability to reach a number of people and to post using freedom of speech. There is however a conflict between free speech and copyright. This can be best illustrated in the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).
I also found the idea of the cyberpunk quite interesting.Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre based in the possibilities inherent in computers, genetics, body modifications and corporate developments in the near future.
What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???
I think censoring the internet can violate a persons democracy. This can reduce the amount of sites people have access to. Their may be sites which are acceptable that could be blocked by the governments system. However there are a number of positives with this. By censoring the net sites that promote violence or pornographic material will be limited which may in turn reduce the cases of these issues in society.
What place does censorship have in a democracy?
Censorship may be used in democracy to reduce the amount of violent, racist and pornographic material that is seen by members of a democracy. Some may argue that censorship defeats the whole purpose of a democracy but i believe that censorship does have a place in society if it reduces negative aspects of society that do not need to be seen by the public.
