tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post4805113393878708897..comments2024-01-22T08:35:08.612+11:00Comments on Broadbanned Revolution - fight the philterphiles that be.: The Analogy Between TV and the InternetJon Seymourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10532362449090377707noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post-75078910326175974192008-11-28T00:41:00.000+11:002008-11-28T00:41:00.000+11:00Hi Interesting article Jon. I think this analogy o...Hi <BR/><BR/>Interesting article Jon. I think this analogy of Clive Hamilton's is close to the heart of his/the Government case. He repeats it incessantly. it's clearly giving him traction.<BR/><BR/>I wrote a short article myself today about this - see <A HREF="http://sydwalker.info/blog/2008/11/27/why-the-web-is-not-like-tv/" REL="nofollow">Why The Web is NOT Like TV</A>.<BR/><BR/>Like Georgie, I think the mail service is the closest analogy - although it was interesting to see you take a quite different approach. But whichever way we look at the TV=Internet argument, it's a dangerous fallacy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post-53575075115263418232008-11-22T22:31:00.000+11:002008-11-22T22:31:00.000+11:00TV is not really free speech. It is one commercial...TV is not really free speech. It is one commercial entity make money from one-way communication.<BR/><BR/>With the internet everyone contributes. Censoring the internet is closer to the post office opening every bit of mail and using white-out to remove any sentences or comments they don't think you should be making. <BR/><BR/>It can also be compared to us all having wearable microphones, and the government stopping you in the middle of any conversation they don't think you should have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536351741931918832.post-3257188070214609232008-11-22T20:04:00.000+11:002008-11-22T20:04:00.000+11:00Jon you are of course spot-on here, I wonder if yo...Jon you are of course spot-on here, I wonder if you saw the spot on Seven's "Sunrise!" where they occasionally do pop-news in the morning with a couple of guests on. One of them was discussing Clean Feed with the editor of Marie Claire, Jackie Frank, and John Magos from Sky News. David Koch went bananas about a so-called "bringing the Internet into line with the rest of the media" and Jackie soundly put him back in his place telling her experiences of trying to publish a magazine with a government censor blacking out sections of it with a marker. Great article pointing out some of the differences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com