Posts by Emma Hart
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Well, we're a big bunch of greenies, and our house doesn't do Earth Hour. I think my objections were summed up pretty well last year by a comment in Your Views (also by this post, though I'm not suggesting any equivalency here).
Some women were furious because, while they were enjoying Earth Hour, they went to see how many other people were doing it, and were shocked and appalled that so many lights were still on in their neighbourhood.
They did this by getting in their car and driving around.
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Paul, like Islander I'm a long-time admirer of your work, and like Sacha I wonder about the rather uncharacteristic tone here. So I didn't mean 'piss off', because if I'd meant that, I would have said it. When I said 'have the discussion you want to have', that's what I meant.
I feel like this should be some kind of Godwin-esque interweb law of probability or something. The more any person attempts to anoint themselves the On-Topic Police, the less likely it is that anyone in the thread will remain on-topic.
One day, when I write the book on Stuff I Have Learned About Net Communities, this'll be chapter one: you cannot make a community be something it doesn't want to be. If you try to bend it, you break it.
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Each to her own. I find people hijacking conversations to enthuse about their favourite television programmes or their sex lives to be very rude.
Okaaay, reasoning aside, did you notice that the net practical effect of your complaint was to drive the thread even further off topic ?
There's no reason a thread can't actually contain two or more different conversations. The most effective thing you can do, surely, is stick to the discussion you want to have.
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And Australians are prepared to put up with that?
Lots of 'em are really quite angry about it. Nobody much seems to really want it. But they just had an election, so what are you going to do?
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The daily fine is a risk once you've been informed that you're linking to banned material, and fail to remove the link. It's still a stonking great sum of money, but it's not quite as ridiculous as the hysteria has portrayed. You're given a chance to fix the problem before they start whacking you with enormous penalties.
Indeed. I've distilled this down from six pages of notes, skimmed a lot of stuff, and still ended up a bit longer than I normally like to run. Because of that I'm perfectly happy to expand on things in comments, and sorry if anything comes out as slightly misleading.
I also had a long discussion with my partner today (we keep ending up discussing child pornography in cafes) which may result in me rolling out my 'solution to teh internets' in comments here. In the meantime, here's a little watch:
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implied as opposed to actual ... this is a completely meaningless standard, so of course it produces bizarrely erratic results.
Really? I'd have thought most stuff (well much of it anyway) didn't involve actual sexual activity, drug use or violence. You see people having sex, or doing drugs in a Hollywood movie and it looks real, but obviously isn't.
I don't really want some movie producer to be able to say, no this shouldn't be R18 because they weren't actually having sex, it just looks like it.
Anything rated R18 for sexual content should contain actual sex, I would hope. The 'implied' sexual activity comes from the description of the M15+ rating - the same one received by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .
In practical censorship terms, 'implied' sexual content doesn't mean 'simulated', it means a scene which is cut so that it is clearly implied that two of the characters had sex, even though you didn't see them do it. IMO, ali is correct to suggest that 'implied' is a subjective term.
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So, what does being on the blacklist mean?
Does canteens.com.au get any Australian traffic? Or is it something less insidious?
Currently, it means that anyone using filtering software on their PC can't access the site. Also if the site is hosted in Australia, the ACMA can issue fines and take-downs.
Once the testing that was supposed to start right after Christmas and still isn't underway is completed, the ACMA blacklist becomes the list all Australian ISPs will be required to apply to all their connections. Then those sites will receive no Australian traffic, regardless of where they're based.
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Yeah, we save that for Emma's threads.
Damn straight.
Elephants! Let's actually learn from the past and do it with elephants!
What history taught me about elephants is that when they panic they don't care whose cavalry they're trampling.
So not a bad metaphor, really.
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No, but fun to write. You have to read the story to get a full sense of how, er, distinctive Icelandic gender politics is.
And who do they get in to fix it? A lesbian. Ace.
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Not really impressed with Stuff this morning (or ever really)
Oh FFS, that's appalling! Not even a cut and paste from Cricinfo? Not even a 'who's cuter, Lucy Doolan or Sarah Taylor'?
I'm all cross now, and shan't be any fun.