Senate Internet Censorship Petition Update

Posted by Peter Black | Censorship,Mandatory ISP Filtering | Monday 1 February 2010 6:31 pm

Thank you to everyone who has signed the Senate Internet Censorship Petition.  So far we have just under 10,000 signatories to the e-petition, but that is just the beginning.

Please let your friends, family and colleagues know about the Government's mandatory Internet filtering policy and what they can do to help defeat it, including signing the petition online as well as collecting paper signatures.

We now have badges you can use to help promote the petition.  If you would like to help publicise the petition, you can copy the code (next to each badge) and paste it onto your blog or website.  Or feel free to right click on the image, save it, and use it however you would like.

EFAPetition
EFAPetition

10 Comments

  1. Comment by George Coldham — February 2, 2010 @ 5:44 am

    Censorship is not a good solution to fix the problem. I don't know what is, but it is too easy to evade, especially for those who it is intending to hinder. Its a good idea in principle, however will simply inconvenience those who do the right thing and use the internet within the law.

  2. Comment by Charlie — February 2, 2010 @ 7:35 am

    These graphics are poor - they look like sterile corporate advertising templates and more importantly don't say what the petition is! Why will someone click on a petition banner when (a) the purpose of the petition is not stated; and (b) they probably don't even know who the EFA are so wouldn't be able to guess.

  3. Comment by mik — February 2, 2010 @ 11:46 am

    Charlie is right, in my opinion.
    Maybe they should be using 'the Australian Sex Party's logo for this.
    This whole thing smacks of avoidance of 'real issues' by the Federal Government.

  4. Comment by Peter Black — February 2, 2010 @ 10:01 pm

    Charlie, mik - we're always looking for volunteers to help us with design and the like. If you would like to design some new logos for us, we would really appreciate it. Just email them to [email protected].
    Thanks!

  5. Comment by clarencegirl — February 3, 2010 @ 12:17 am

    Agree with Comment #2 - change the graphic to say what the petition is about.
    Useless putting this petition button in sidebar as is now.

  6. Comment by Peter Black — February 3, 2010 @ 12:22 am

    Charlie and clarencegirl, I accept the criticism but we were hoping people would do more than simply embed the logo, we were also hoping people would explain what the issue is about and why they should sign the petition.
    That said, if you are able to design another logo, we would be more than happy to use it.

  7. Comment by Kieran — February 11, 2010 @ 11:12 pm

    Will parliment/the Senate except an online petition? I understand they will not, only an original document

    Please let me know if I'm wrong

    cheers

    Kieran

  8. Comment by Peter Black — February 11, 2010 @ 11:26 pm

    Kieran, this petition complies with the relevant Senate Standing Orders and as such will be accepted by the Clerk of the Parliament. (The House of Representatives, however, does not accept online petitions.)

  9. Comment by Kieran — February 12, 2010 @ 1:55 am

    thx Peter

  10. Comment by Anthony — February 24, 2010 @ 2:08 am

    Hello,

    I copied one of them and made the background semitransparent, so you can use it on different coloured pages.

    http://url2.tk/efa.png

    178 x 60px

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