Day 7 - Internet Politics

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The internet is becoming commonplace with businesses, individuals and also politics. Even though anyone can post nearly anything online doesn't guarantee it will stay online, especially if it breaches local laws that are governed by politics which help keep it running in an orderly sense. An example of internet politics is the censoring of websites, this censoring is usually for minors, which in Australia indicates under the age of 18 and in America under the age of 21. An example is the Gears of War video game website, at the beginning of the site it asks for verification of age which the person is expected to be truthful and this is an example of political intervention. Click Here to visit the Gears of War website. Another example is in the game Second Life, politics are also present when people deal with real estate, control the activities and the enforce the rules they developed. Even though it may seem politics are all bad with all these rules, they are very much needed especially within the above example of second life. If there was no "political" activity within the online game it would be much more prone to attacks and theft and complete chaos.

Facebook also have politics, this political hierarchy is not entirely forced by the programmers, but by the individual user.. How does facebook have politics involved? The friends system. The friends system allows the user to accept or refuse people to view your page and be your friend, this is one way to "get back" or openly say "I don't want to really know you" to another user of facebook. The person who owns the page, has the power to allow, not allow and to remove friends from the list at anytime. People also have the power to send out mass emails which can change the direction of choices by the government through petitions, whether online or to ask
The concept behind this post is that the internet is not free from politics, that they do play an important role in the internet in giving it some kind of structure it some areas.

TUTORIAL
Sign an e-petition.
Clean Feed
http://petitions.tigweb.org/oznetcensorship

Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
Responded to on the Wednesday, 11 November 2009
http://tgconceptart.blogspot.com/

What is Barak Obama up to today?
President Obama plans to speak to Americans via a prime-time address December 1 about new plans for the war in Afghanistan, which has now lasted about eight years.
http://blogs.america.gov/obama/

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
SMITH, Mrs Christine Ann, MP
Blair, Qld Neumann, Mr Shayne, Member for Blair

Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local
member spoke in parliament.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 about Year of the blood donor
Click here to see transcript

Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
Here is confirmation of my email sent to Christine Ann Smith.



Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.
Utopia on the internet
A perfect world, a place where every person can enter this realm of peace, tranquility and everlasting bliss. This world is the internet...or was suppose to be. The internet was to be a perfect place where everything and anything is possible


What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???
Clean Feed is an internet censorship policy that the Australian Federal Government want's to enforce. Do I think that clean feed is a good idea? No I don't. The government will filter information out about anything that is anti government and not allowing the people to have power. The internet has "politics" that try to filter out illegal websites to do with downloads, pornography, weapons etc. I am not politically inclined, so it is a little harder for me to decipher the true motives of the Clean Feed scheme.

What place does censorship have in a democracy?
Censorship does defiantly have it's place especially by protecting the minds of young children and those who have not developed the psychological capabilities to understand adult themes. If there was no censorship at all, than anyone anywhere could produce and put on radio and TV anything. Censorship does help keep what is available to the people by limiting information and media that may be harmful to the thinking of individuals.