Week 9 - Response to content

What opportunities can you find for political participation via the internet. How many of the following can you achieve while sticking to your political beliefs?

    * Sign an e-petition.
    *  Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
    *  What is Barak Obama up to today? Can you send him a message about the importance of freedom on the internet?
    * What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?
    * What place does censorship have in a democracy?
    * When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?
    *  Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are. Send one a message.
    *  Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
    * Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.


1. Sign an e-petition:

This could either be sent by printing out a copy  and scanning
it in with a signature or by just clicking on a e-petition. 

Whenever I'm back home in Norway I snowboard! So I tried to find a Snowboard petition that I could sign on to which included a topic that I believed in. I found the WAS petition against the IOC for how they are handling the qualifications for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Instead of letting the official TTR pro-tour decide who gets to qualify they are letting FIS controll and create their own qualification for halfpipe and other events. Wich basically means that the riders have to endure an even tighter schedule and would also have to sacrifice future TTR events (where you win the big $) for an extra FIS event.  
( http://www.tacky.no/skateboard/article/?id=113968)


2. Respond to a professional blogger at major news site.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/30/airstrike-killed-al-awlaki-yemeni-official-says/comment-page-1/#comment-870573 signed: AndreLindegaard


3.  What is Barak Obama up to today? Can you send him a message about the importance of freedom on the internet? 
Today he just delivered his annual "back to school" address. I found that out on his official twitter page and I could send him a message if I wanted to create a (free) twitter account, but I did not want to do that. (http://twitter.com/#!/BARACKOBAMA)


4. What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?
The Australian Federal Labor Government has a ‘plan’ (since late 2007) to mandate that ISPs block adults' access to Internet content on a secret blacklist, compiled by a government agency, that the Government deems unsuitable for adults.”
http://libertus.net/censor/isp-blocking/au-govplan.html


5. When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?
It's not expected on the Gold Coast any time soon. Though, it should be ready in 8 years at the maximum.
Benefits are: Have everyone connected to the same broadline like schools, workplaces and as well as families. Plus much faster speed, 100 times faster then normal households.
http://www.nbnco.com.au/


Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are. Send one a message.
    *  Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
    * Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
Had NO idea how to do this!