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		<title>Question Time Cameo</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/question-time-cameo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign against mandatory internet filtering, which any loyal reader will know has consumed a good portion of my life these last few years, has heated up in recent days in exciting ways.
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF), after writing an open letter to Kevin Rudd late last year, last week added Australia to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Australians a bunch of internet wusses?</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/internet-wusse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a depressing cycle repeating itself in the Australian news. Something nasty happens. The media report the outcry about how nasty it is. Then comes the depressing bit; the politicians, wanting to be seen to respond to the confected crisis, propose some sort of ill-thought-out, knee-jerk regulation to mitigate it.
A good example is Senator Nick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple needs some sex education</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/apple-needs-some-sex-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll happily admit to becoming a convert to the Cult of Mac a few years ago, and I&#8217;ve been known to refer to my iPhone as &#8220;the precious&#8221;. Apple are uncompromising in championing the user experience in their products, and it&#8217;s little wonder they have such a loyal following.
This uncompromising attitude, unfortunately, extends beyond usability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet racism a symptom, not a cause</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/internet-racism-a-symptom-not-a-cause/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/internet-racism-a-symptom-not-a-cause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a politician, and something nasty is brought to your attention, what do you do? The best and sometimes only tool in your toolbox is the one you reach for. The tool is this: to pass a law banning it. Therefore, although it&#8217;s always discouraging, a story like this one, is far from unusual or surprising. &#8221;Laws to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men at Work vs. Kookaburra</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/men-at-work-vs-kookaburra/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/opinion/men-at-work-vs-kookaburra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think Tim Dunlop missed the point yesterday in his Crikey piece about the Men at Work/Kookaburra case. Trying to decide whether they did or did nor borrow the melody from the folk song seems, to me, insignificant compared to the question of &#8220;should it matter if they did?&#8221;. Here&#8217;s my response (as a letter) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Missing Party</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/the-missing-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stilgherrian has been covering the iiNet trial for Crikey (good job, Stil), and wrote yesterday about Conroy&#8217;s rather worrying remarks on the subject indicating that the ISPs and entertainment industry should get together and sort out a way to solve this problem.
This makes some sense if the two parties get together and and discuss a new business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle for an open Internet</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/politics/the-battle-for-an-open-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the trends in Internet freedom have been all bad. China&#8217;s censorship regime escalated dramatically over the last 12 months, with a more aggressive Golden Shield, tumultuous events in Iran and of course Australia&#8217;s own filtering plan. It is therefore extremely heartening to see the tough new stand on Internet freedom taken by the USA.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filtering questions left unanswered</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/internet/filtering-questions-left-unanswered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://coljac.net/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a debate as nuanced as the one against filtering, it can be hard to penetrate the sound bites about kids and get some focus on the real policy underneath. With the filtering moving from policy to law, though, we can hope that scrutiny will increase. Here are my suggestions (over at EFA) for some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google article on New Matilda</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/writing/google-article-on-new-matilda/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/writing/google-article-on-new-matilda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a piece by my today over on New Matilda on the Google/China fight. It&#8217;s nice to write about someone else&#8217;s filtering problems for once.
Have a read here.
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		<title>Flowers for Google &#8211; reactions inside China</title>
		<link>http://coljac.net/2010/writing/flowers-for-google-reactions-inside-china/</link>
		<comments>http://coljac.net/2010/writing/flowers-for-google-reactions-inside-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Colin lived in China in 2009 and as EFA&#8217;s internet censorship spokesman has previously commented on China&#8217;s Internet Censorship regime.

Google&#8217;s threat, in the wake of apparent Chinese government espionage, to withdraw from the Chinese market completely has created a storm of comment in the media and blogosphere. Google has been praised for a principled [...]]]></description>
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