Sci-Fi & Squeam

23 Aug 2014

Liberty and the Internet: Can We Watch it in Oz?

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Piracy. Privacy.People and the Internet. The future in Australia and NZ.

Sonja the Squeamer speaks to Jon Lawrence from the EFA ( Electronic Frontiers Australia).

He is the Executive Officer of this organisation that serves the public in information sharing and promoting digital freedom and access and privacy in Australia and has been doing so now for 20 years ( established 1994).

‘EFA was established in January 1994 and incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act (S.A.) in May 1994. EFA’s registration number is 101007096.

EFA is independent of government and commerce and is funded by membership subscriptions and donationsfrom individuals and organisations with an altruistic interest in promoting online civil liberties.’

‘Our major objectives are to protect and promote the civil liberties of users and operators of computer based communications systems such as the Internet, to advocate the amendment of laws and regulations in Australia and elsewhere (both current and proposed) which restrict free speech and to educate the community at large about the social, political, and civil liberties issues involved in the use of computer based communications systems.’

THIS IS THE FULL INTERVIEW-UNCENSORED!

The EFA are NON-PARTISAN.

TechLiberty (NZ equivalent to the EFA)

‘The Tech Liberty group is inspired by the Electronic Freedom Foundation, but as individuals we look to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the NZ Bill of Rights Act, and our society’s tradition of steadily expanding human rights over hundreds of years.’

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

“Who watches the watchmen?”
– Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347