Australian Greens Demand Public Access To Cloak and Dagger Anti-Piracy Meetings 93
Fluffeh writes "Continuing the recent stories on the secret, closed door, FOI blocked talks, the Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General's Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. This morning, Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam filed an order in the Senate that the Government disclose details of the most recent meeting. 'The Government refuses to reveal almost any information about the attendees, the substance or the outcomes of the meeting,' he said in a separate statement. 'A Freedom of Information request from a journalist looks like it's been met with maximum resistance.'"
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bout time they acutally did something to help the population instead of trying to fuck it over.
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Really? Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] and the Greens website [greens.org.au] both say they oppose censorship.
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IN Europe it is the Green/Pirate Party alliance that has been fighting ACTA. Here is a quote from a response i got from my SNP MEP: 'My group in the European Parliament, the Greens/European Free Alliance,
has commissioned two very important studies regarding ACTA which may be
of interest to you. One is on the compatibility of ACTA with the
European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights (http://rfc.act-on-acta.eu/fundamental-rights) and the other is
in relation to Access to Medicines
(http://rfc.act-on-acta.eu/access-to-medicines).'
so, as you can read: Greens fighting ACTA.
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They have no interest in maintaining the openness of the internet in Australia. They supported the failed internet filtering legislation moreover they would like to censor everything.
The Australian Green Party [wikipedia.org] do not support internet censorship [greens.org.au], and in fact are opposed to internet censorship [greens.org.au]. Do you have a reason for your opinion - or are you perhaps you're thinking of the Laboural Party of Australia? They seem to love censorship.
Their policy manifesto would make Kim Jong Ill proud.
Wow! You're a fucking idiot aren't you?
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Liberalism and liberterianism are not the same, and liberals in countries with proportional voting systems are definitely not the same as libertarians in the U.S.
Most liberals want to government to give people equal chances in life, while most libertarians want to either abolish government or keep it as small as possible.
Let me Wikipedia that for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism [wikipedia.org]
Actually liberal parties in Europe have quite a lot in common with the democratic party in the US, in terms of what they want to achieve. Except they're typically considered right of the center in Europe.
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In Australia, neither Greens, Social Democrats, Christian Conservatives or Liberals are single-issue parties, and Liberals are most definitely not Libertarians. The single-issue parties are the ones like "Shooters and Fishers Party", or "Help End Marijuana Prohibition".