Big Bruthah is Warching You, Mate

I don't know about you, but I find this offensive and cause for concern, seems that our laid back, stubby drinking, 'Roo ramming, ute driving mates down under (or at least their elected officials) are planning to censor the entire interwebs for the whole of the country.

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The whole of the proposed list is supposed to be available online at WikiLeaks but the site won't load up for me. If you're interested in checking out give it a go and lemme know how it is. Apparently the websites on the banned list run the gamut with everything from kiddie porn to online poker to a dentist . .. oh and apparently WikiLeaks itself. To me this is too much, I don't think that government should step in and censor something like this in the name of the children (oh dear Gord won't someone think of the childrens!).

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If a country who's supposed to be all about freedom of choice and G'Day Mates and tossing shrimps on the barbie wants to join to ranks of countries like China who are filtering the internet for the good of their people, who's next? We're awfully regulated here in Canada, so let's hope the Right Honourable Stephen Harper doesn't start to think this is a good idea and lock down our interwebs. After all we are the true north strong and free.

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If you've got kids you're likely a parent, act like one. Teach your kids something about something other than pissing and moaning and how everyone gets a gold star. If you instill the right values into them they'll be all right and even if they do come across this stuff on the internet, by accident or on purpose, they'll still turn out all right. Or if you are a parent and you think this is the way to go don't filter out my internet, put some cyber nanny net filetering software on your own computer. The government shouldn't be raising your kids, you should be.

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I mean if the government came along and mandated what your kids would wear and what you'd feed them and when you'd hit the fucking roof. Unless of course they also paid for it, then I'm sure a lot of parents would be cool with it, whatever, after all WoW ain't going to play itself, bars won't stay open without thirsty patrons and if you don't stuff money in a stripper's cleavage, who will?

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Oh yeah and if you're a kid who hasn't figured out Google yet, you're hopeless and your parents probably don't need to lock out anything on the net, but just in case this is apparently how you disable the cyber nanny software your mum put on the computer.

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I didn't grow up with the internet, and maybe that's a good thing. I know it meant I had to go to this building full of things called books to look stuff up called a Library when I wanted informaton on something, and I used to buy things called magazines to keep up on current news and happenings . . . and it really would have hacked the bottom out of the value of those grainy VHS tapes of porn recorded off the big dish that everyone had stashed somewhere.

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No well, so it goes. Anyway since we're sorta in that vein already, how about some cool old Soviet Union propaganda posters? I'm not quite sure what it is but I'm a big fan of propaganda posters in general, maybe not always their message (when I can read it) but there's something about the style of them, the art, the window into a past way of thinking or the window in the past's way of trying to convince someone to think your way that I really find appealing.

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And in case you're wondering no I'm not designing my own . . . yet.

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Until next time Comrades.