Lecture & Tutorial 8: Privacy online and making my own short movie

Privacy online was the focus today. We discussed the effects of network neutrality and how it can affect what we can view on the web. It was interesting to find out that the Australian government is looking to filter websites they find inappropriate for the Australian public to view. The thought of the government looking to decide what we can and cannot view on the web is disconcerting because it is then constricting what we take part in in our lives. This is a serious issue that will no doubt upset the majority of the public. The internet was made for everyone to be an open and free network but it would now be controlled by the government. Just another thing that the government feels the need to 'own'. The filtering obviously would be something of worth to children who would then not be exposed to inappropriate things on the internet for them, but in that respect, it should be up to the parents to choose to use a filter in their homes that they government has already provided. We discussed that the education of the parents on shielding children from filth on the internet should be the first attempt. Parents should be brought up to date on what is really happening on the net, and then decide to implement the appropriate filtering in their homes. Everything starts at home. We viewed a video from The Stephen Colbert Show, where the guest was an author of the book The Future of the Internet and the End of it. This book highlights what is happening to the Internet the more technology is able to progress with it eg. iPhone. The more the Internet gets better the more we are unable to control it. What will happen is it keeps on progressing? Machines passing on endless codes to each other and communicating with each other without the command of a person. This is just what's happening now where machines just know what to do without us telling them becasue they are programmed that way. But what will happen when the code they are communicating with each other develops faster than we can control. Something to think about.

In the tutorial we completed out video for YouTube and have published it to the web. I completed mine and added sound to it. It was very exciting. I might just be doing more of these and polishing my skills in movie making.