Lecture 7 - Free Culture, Free Society (by adam muir)

I didn't attend this lecture and unfortunately my computer doesn't have the software to show me the slides uploading on learning-at-Griffith which is a bit of a shame. I think this lecture probably would have been interesting. The idea of Internet censorship is an interesting one, dividing many factions of society who are passionate about the issue. The arguments are pretty standard. Those who approve of censorship will generally raise the issue of child pornography and paedophilia, whilst those who oppose it will generally raise issues regarding freedom of speech and make reference to china. Generally I oppose censorship of the Internet. I think it's pretty bad when I government starts intervening on things like this. I have no problem with governments trying to restrict access to child pornography or the like but I do have a problem with governments filtering blogs and media outlets which may have an opinion contrary to theres.