I did a world-wide "Scriptures for America" hour-long radio broadcast last night and have done nothing else all day today except answer the phone and process "Lebensraum" orders!
And here is what is noteworthy: ***Not one*** call has been hostile or even slightly negative! It has been raining accolades - and I can tell you this: There is support out there for what we say and do!
At a later time, I will give you more details and instructions on how you can get a tape of this broadcast, but for now, just let me take a nap!
Therefore, I have been fishing for a little filler ZGram and came up with this one:
Much like Canada, Australia is facing nationwide "web management" at the hands of their government. One correspondent, a parent of two school age youngsters, describes the scholastic internet experience down under:
"Since censorship is flavour of the week, let me tell a tale about the existing attempts by the pollies and education departments at censorship:
"My 10 year old son goes to a NSW Government primary school. With much fanfare, the NSW Government (like all other governments) has boasted about it's computers / internet in schools policy. And my son's primary school has quite a few computers, and connection to the internet (ISDN line).
"So I asked him what it was like using the internet at school. His response - 'not worth using'.
"He told me that a search with any of the common search engines on relatively tames subject - like pokemon games, currently a hot item with 10 year olds - brought up hundreds of sites, but clicking on most of them resulted in a long delay before the censorship software came back with an 'access not permitted' screen.
"I asked my daughter (NSW Govt High School student) what her experience was using the internet at school. Same response.
"'Not worth it - so many sites are blocked, it slows down using the web so much that its a waste of time;.
"Needless to say, I let my kids cruise the net from home where we're not silly enough to use censoring software.
"Great strategy by the education department and politicians, eh? - put all the schools on line and then make it so unattractive the students aren't interested. Of course, the students who are seriously interested have parents/friends etc with uncensored internet access and use that. Which makes the existing censorship attempts kinda pointless.
"I don't know if it has changed recently, but the NSW Public School censorship blocks access to the web sites of that most subversive of organisations.......
"the Scouts!
"Yep - if you thought that Scouting was the sort of activity that might be beneficial for NSW school students, the NSW government doesn't agree with you."
(Sent to the fight-censorship list by Mark Hughes)
Thought for the Day:
Truth is on the march, and nothing can stop it!
Émile Zola
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