Big Brother Made Me Do It, Mate

At about 4:30 am the other day, something very bad happened on the Australian Big Brother reality TV show. Yet, the TV show wasn't on TV at the time. It was being streamed live over the Internet and to Australian mobile phones (at least to, presumably, a few dozen insomniacs).

Suddenly, there's a movement afoot to regulate Internet broadcasts like those on TV (from Asia Media News):

Communications Minister Helen Coonan said yesterday that legislation to broaden the authority's regulatory powers would be introduced into Parliament as soon as possible. "This matter has reinforced the need for changes to the act to ensure that these new services being offered over the internet and mobile devices are subject to the same content restrictions that apply to television broadcasts," she said.

This sounds like the similar European attempt to bring all "broadcasts" under one regulatory roof.

Comments

[fds]

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[Adolescer]

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[Clariece]

This from my colleague, Mark Schneider:I am respirenteng our 100,000 members of NowPublic.com, the largest community of news crowd-sourcers on the web.And we'd be delighted to hear your response to this question:Google famously has stated its primary policy as "Don't be evil." Just about one year ago, Google founder Sergey Brin was quoted in Forbes Magazine as being prepared to "compromise" on this primary policy in regards to information requested by the government of China."We felt that perhaps we could compromise our principles but provide ultimately more information for the Chinese and be a more effective service and perhaps make more of a difference," Brin was quoted.Can you please inform us if there has been any recent developments - and as head of Google policy, what are your thoughts on this issue?Sincerely,Mark SchneiderActual News GuyNowPublic.comactualnewsguy[at]nowpublic[dot]com(I, too, work at NowPublic; thanks for opening up this forum. -jordan)

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